Rare Pair Fest, 2017
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polkad0ttingHello, I’m polkad0tting (polkadot on AO3). Welcome to my little world!
I have lots of old letters from many different exchanges, so if you’d like more insight and/or ideas about what I enjoy, here’s the tag to poke through them. Feel free to use old prompts if those appeal to you more than the ones in this letter! :)
Like list:
Basically? Affection, both platonic and romantic.
• Basic: Sports, friends-to-lovers, falling in love, comfortable established relationships filled with affection and in-jokes, couples kicking butt together and saving the team (and then picking up the drycleaning on the way home), people knowing each other really well, banter, emotional support, plans, plans that don’t go according to plan, working together and using different strengths, coming-out stories, five-times fics.
• In romance: Snark, banter, fond teasing, zaniness, affection laced with humor, snuggling in bed, having sex on sports equipment.
• In porn: Kissing, exploring a partner’s body, unexpected erogenous zones, talking during sex, sex that doesn’t go quite right but they run with it and make it awesome anyway, incoherent noises, morning sex, well-developed biceps and shoulders, fingering that's enjoyed for itself, wall-sex, multiple orgasms, laughter.
Squick list
• Basic: Infidelity, bullying, cruel jokes, noncon, dubcon, incest, bestiality, underage, character death, graphic descriptions of character injury.
• In romance: One-sided pining, both people pining but never getting together, gaslighting, characters who are in love but don’t seem to really like each other very much, A/B/O.
• In porn: Pain being inflicted as a kink (exception: Isabel -> Steve if no permanent damage), bad dirty talk (if not joked about by the participants), someone not caring about their partner's comfort and pleasure.
My requests:
* A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV) --- Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender/Hook-Handed Man
* DC Cinematic Universe --- Isabel Maru | Doctor Poison/Steve Trevor, Antiope/Menalippe
* Gymnastics RPF --- Danell Leyva/Oleg Verniaiev, Nikita Nagornyy/Oleg Verniaiev, Kenzo Shirai/Nikita Nagornyy
* NFL RPF --- Odell Beckham Jr./Jarvis Landry, Ezekiel "Zeke" Elliott/Dak Prescott
* Tennis RPF --- Novak Djokovic/Andy Murray, Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut
* Swimming RPF --- Nathan Adrian/Simone Manuel, Nathan Adrian/Katie Ledecky, Chad les Clos/Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky/Simone Manuel
A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV)
Relationship - Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender/Hook-Handed Man
I love these two, ship them mightily, and would love to know more about them, their lives, and their relationship. How did they meet? How did they fall in love? What are the life goals of either/both? How are they trying to achieve them by working for Olaf?
I’d love to see some non-Baudelaire related criminal shenanigans together, with or without Olaf, or some Baudelaire-related criminal shenanigans from their POV. One specific idea (not wedded to it, please feel free to go your own direction!!) would be a canon-divergence AU in which (somehow) they end up being a Baudelaire child’s/the Baudelaire children’s guardians together (without Olaf) and create a weird, wacky, criminal, but oddly functional family.
Relevant info:
- I’m okay with whatever names you like (feel free to come up with your own!), or with keeping their epithets. I read the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender as nonbinary and would prefer “they” pronouns for them.
- Please direct criminality, violence, and evilness outwards rather than at each other.
- I’m equally fine with treating only the Netflix series as canon, and with bringing in canon from the books. If you want to rely solely on the Netflix series and ignore the books entirely, I’m more than fine with that. I’m also fine with taking bits you like from the books and leaving out other bits. (So you can take or leave the Hook-Handed Man’s backstory that is revealed in later books, take just his name, etc.) Exception: I’d rather not have a fic that focuses on the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender’s death from the books, or whatever the Hook-Handed Man’s grieving might be. I’m here for happy/happy-ish stuff. (If you can say that in this canon…)
~
DC Cinematic Universe
Relationships - Isabel Maru | Doctor Poison/Steve Trevor, Antiope/Menalippe
For Isabel/Steve, while I don’t want Steve to be permanently hurt or anything, I’d be super into Isabel taking control in the bedroom and turning what he thinks is a seduction to get her secrets into Something Else entirely. Perhaps the Amazons aren’t the only women who can get Steve to spill his secrets… Perhaps Isabel doesn’t only work on poison gas, and she uses Steve as a test subject for a different project (that gas she gives Ludendorff made him not need rest? Maybe it has uses ~in bed. I’m totally up for Steve getting wrung dry by too many orgasms, for example, or being edged like crazy.) Diana eventually rescuing Steve works, or just leaving it open-ended. Or Steve escaping. Or Isabel/Steve/Diana threesome. [I’d prefer no noncon. Steve consenting to Isabel’s seduction even as it morphs from what he intended, because he still thinks he can get her secrets – and because he finds it hot and is enjoying it! – is more up my alley than noncon.]
For Antiope/Menalippe, please no angst or deathfic. I’d love to hear about their adventures on Themyscira. How do they fall in love? How do Amazons court? What are their courting rituals, and do they involve dueling on the practice fields? Both sweet romance and dirty porn (and the whole spectrum in between) are great. If porn, I find Antiope’s scar really hot, and I love athletic women in bed using their muscles and strength. Incorporating Antiope’s quest to get Diana into training is also great. And fix-it fic in which Antiope doesn’t die would also be fantastic!
Gymnastics RPF
Relationships - Danell Leyva/Oleg Verniaiev, Nikita Nagornyy/Oleg Verniaiev, Kenzo Shirai/Nikita Nagornyy
Any of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a gymnastics meet – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other in the gym with sex forfeits as prizes.) I also love how these guys are super social-media-y, always posting little clips of themselves in the gym and having fun being all competitive over new skills. (E.g., Oleg posts a new skill he’s developing, Nikita tries it later that week, then Kenzo posts something nobody else can do – because he’s Kenzo - and everyone is all fake-frustrated, etc.) And how supportive Oleg, Nikita, and Danell are of each other when they post shirtless/tiny-swimsuit thirst!pics (Kenzo is a little shyer). xD
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or in the gym, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Olympics fic, and people who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
Three final notes:
1) Please no pro-Putin feelings from any POV or sympathetic characters.
2) Please don’t have Nikita teased or made fun of for his acne.
3) Please no Nikita/Daria (but please don’t bash her either, she’s sweet). Igor Radivilov/Angelina being cute in the background of an Oleg fic is okay, but nothing explicit. (Reading romance or porn about a RL canon ship squicks me.)
NFL RPF
Relationships - Odell Beckham Jr./Jarvis Landry, Ezekiel "Zeke" Elliott/Dak Prescott
Either of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a game, say – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other in their home gym with sex forfeits as prizes.)
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or on the field, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Super Bowl fic, and guys who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
Note: If writing Odell, you definitely don’t need to sand down the edges of his personality. I’m aware that he’s a firebrand, and I don’t need that erased. While I’m after happy-fic/happy endings, I don’t need everybody to be perfect cinnamon rolls. ;)
~
Tennis RPF
Relationships - Novak Djokovic/Andy Murray, Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut
Ah tennis, my old friend. <3
Either of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a match – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other on the practice court with sex forfeits as prizes.)
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or on the field, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Slam fic, and guys who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
Specifically for Pierre-Hugues & Nico, I do find the age gap hot in this instance. I don’t see PHH as a doe-eyed innocent by any means, but Nico being all Experienced and teaching him new things would be fun.
Note: Please no mention of any WAGs unless you change them into platonic friends.
~
Swimming RPFb>
Relationships - Nathan Adrian/Simone Manuel, Nathan Adrian/Katie Ledecky, Chad les Clos/Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky/Simone Manuel
Any of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a swim meet – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other in the gym/practice pool with sex forfeits as prizes.)
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or on the field, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Olympics fic, and people who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
If you’re writing Nathan/Katie or Nathan/Simone, I think it’d be fun if it was Katie/Simone who put the moves on Nathan. (He said something in an interview about having a secret wish to be swept off his feet for a change!) Since he’s a few years older than them, I’d love to see the “gain respect in the pool” dynamic. Maybe Katie/Simone says “if I win gold, I’m claiming a kiss” (or something like that, I am not suave)? And then events eventuate. ;)
Katie/Simone is an awesome ship that I really would love to see. Stanford girls kicking mega ass! They were Rio roommates too. So there is Much Space for fic.
Meanwhile Chad is an insufferable hilarious dude. I love him/Michael, with all that happened in the pool and out, and would definitely be interested in Olympics-fic about that. Rivals-to-lovers fic is super hot, and it’d be a lot of fun to see any flavor of that. (Except outright hatesex or noncon, please.)
~
Thank you for writing for me! I’m really excited. :D
I have lots of old letters from many different exchanges, so if you’d like more insight and/or ideas about what I enjoy, here’s the tag to poke through them. Feel free to use old prompts if those appeal to you more than the ones in this letter! :)
Like list:
Basically? Affection, both platonic and romantic.
• Basic: Sports, friends-to-lovers, falling in love, comfortable established relationships filled with affection and in-jokes, couples kicking butt together and saving the team (and then picking up the drycleaning on the way home), people knowing each other really well, banter, emotional support, plans, plans that don’t go according to plan, working together and using different strengths, coming-out stories, five-times fics.
• In romance: Snark, banter, fond teasing, zaniness, affection laced with humor, snuggling in bed, having sex on sports equipment.
• In porn: Kissing, exploring a partner’s body, unexpected erogenous zones, talking during sex, sex that doesn’t go quite right but they run with it and make it awesome anyway, incoherent noises, morning sex, well-developed biceps and shoulders, fingering that's enjoyed for itself, wall-sex, multiple orgasms, laughter.
Squick list
• Basic: Infidelity, bullying, cruel jokes, noncon, dubcon, incest, bestiality, underage, character death, graphic descriptions of character injury.
• In romance: One-sided pining, both people pining but never getting together, gaslighting, characters who are in love but don’t seem to really like each other very much, A/B/O.
• In porn: Pain being inflicted as a kink (exception: Isabel -> Steve if no permanent damage), bad dirty talk (if not joked about by the participants), someone not caring about their partner's comfort and pleasure.
My requests:
* A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV) --- Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender/Hook-Handed Man
* DC Cinematic Universe --- Isabel Maru | Doctor Poison/Steve Trevor, Antiope/Menalippe
* Gymnastics RPF --- Danell Leyva/Oleg Verniaiev, Nikita Nagornyy/Oleg Verniaiev, Kenzo Shirai/Nikita Nagornyy
* NFL RPF --- Odell Beckham Jr./Jarvis Landry, Ezekiel "Zeke" Elliott/Dak Prescott
* Tennis RPF --- Novak Djokovic/Andy Murray, Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut
* Swimming RPF --- Nathan Adrian/Simone Manuel, Nathan Adrian/Katie Ledecky, Chad les Clos/Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky/Simone Manuel
A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV)
Relationship - Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender/Hook-Handed Man
I love these two, ship them mightily, and would love to know more about them, their lives, and their relationship. How did they meet? How did they fall in love? What are the life goals of either/both? How are they trying to achieve them by working for Olaf?
I’d love to see some non-Baudelaire related criminal shenanigans together, with or without Olaf, or some Baudelaire-related criminal shenanigans from their POV. One specific idea (not wedded to it, please feel free to go your own direction!!) would be a canon-divergence AU in which (somehow) they end up being a Baudelaire child’s/the Baudelaire children’s guardians together (without Olaf) and create a weird, wacky, criminal, but oddly functional family.
Relevant info:
- I’m okay with whatever names you like (feel free to come up with your own!), or with keeping their epithets. I read the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender as nonbinary and would prefer “they” pronouns for them.
- Please direct criminality, violence, and evilness outwards rather than at each other.
- I’m equally fine with treating only the Netflix series as canon, and with bringing in canon from the books. If you want to rely solely on the Netflix series and ignore the books entirely, I’m more than fine with that. I’m also fine with taking bits you like from the books and leaving out other bits. (So you can take or leave the Hook-Handed Man’s backstory that is revealed in later books, take just his name, etc.) Exception: I’d rather not have a fic that focuses on the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender’s death from the books, or whatever the Hook-Handed Man’s grieving might be. I’m here for happy/happy-ish stuff. (If you can say that in this canon…)
~
DC Cinematic Universe
Relationships - Isabel Maru | Doctor Poison/Steve Trevor, Antiope/Menalippe
For Isabel/Steve, while I don’t want Steve to be permanently hurt or anything, I’d be super into Isabel taking control in the bedroom and turning what he thinks is a seduction to get her secrets into Something Else entirely. Perhaps the Amazons aren’t the only women who can get Steve to spill his secrets… Perhaps Isabel doesn’t only work on poison gas, and she uses Steve as a test subject for a different project (that gas she gives Ludendorff made him not need rest? Maybe it has uses ~in bed. I’m totally up for Steve getting wrung dry by too many orgasms, for example, or being edged like crazy.) Diana eventually rescuing Steve works, or just leaving it open-ended. Or Steve escaping. Or Isabel/Steve/Diana threesome. [I’d prefer no noncon. Steve consenting to Isabel’s seduction even as it morphs from what he intended, because he still thinks he can get her secrets – and because he finds it hot and is enjoying it! – is more up my alley than noncon.]
For Antiope/Menalippe, please no angst or deathfic. I’d love to hear about their adventures on Themyscira. How do they fall in love? How do Amazons court? What are their courting rituals, and do they involve dueling on the practice fields? Both sweet romance and dirty porn (and the whole spectrum in between) are great. If porn, I find Antiope’s scar really hot, and I love athletic women in bed using their muscles and strength. Incorporating Antiope’s quest to get Diana into training is also great. And fix-it fic in which Antiope doesn’t die would also be fantastic!
Gymnastics RPF
Relationships - Danell Leyva/Oleg Verniaiev, Nikita Nagornyy/Oleg Verniaiev, Kenzo Shirai/Nikita Nagornyy
Any of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a gymnastics meet – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other in the gym with sex forfeits as prizes.) I also love how these guys are super social-media-y, always posting little clips of themselves in the gym and having fun being all competitive over new skills. (E.g., Oleg posts a new skill he’s developing, Nikita tries it later that week, then Kenzo posts something nobody else can do – because he’s Kenzo - and everyone is all fake-frustrated, etc.) And how supportive Oleg, Nikita, and Danell are of each other when they post shirtless/tiny-swimsuit thirst!pics (Kenzo is a little shyer). xD
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or in the gym, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Olympics fic, and people who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
Three final notes:
1) Please no pro-Putin feelings from any POV or sympathetic characters.
2) Please don’t have Nikita teased or made fun of for his acne.
3) Please no Nikita/Daria (but please don’t bash her either, she’s sweet). Igor Radivilov/Angelina being cute in the background of an Oleg fic is okay, but nothing explicit. (Reading romance or porn about a RL canon ship squicks me.)
NFL RPF
Relationships - Odell Beckham Jr./Jarvis Landry, Ezekiel "Zeke" Elliott/Dak Prescott
Either of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a game, say – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other in their home gym with sex forfeits as prizes.)
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or on the field, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Super Bowl fic, and guys who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
Note: If writing Odell, you definitely don’t need to sand down the edges of his personality. I’m aware that he’s a firebrand, and I don’t need that erased. While I’m after happy-fic/happy endings, I don’t need everybody to be perfect cinnamon rolls. ;)
~
Tennis RPF
Relationships - Novak Djokovic/Andy Murray, Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut
Ah tennis, my old friend. <3
Either of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a match – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other on the practice court with sex forfeits as prizes.)
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or on the field, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Slam fic, and guys who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
Specifically for Pierre-Hugues & Nico, I do find the age gap hot in this instance. I don’t see PHH as a doe-eyed innocent by any means, but Nico being all Experienced and teaching him new things would be fun.
Note: Please no mention of any WAGs unless you change them into platonic friends.
~
Swimming RPFb>
Relationships - Nathan Adrian/Simone Manuel, Nathan Adrian/Katie Ledecky, Chad les Clos/Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky/Simone Manuel
Any of these ships being happy together would be fantastic. A sports focus in always fun but not obligatory! (Whether official – incorporating a swim meet – or unofficial – e.g., trying to outdo each other in the gym/practice pool with sex forfeits as prizes.)
Some of my favorite mainstays are getting-together/first-time fics, banter, adventures on the bedroom and/or on the field, strength and athleticism in bed, pranks and shenanigans, coming-out fic, happily-ever-after Olympics fic, and people who are stupidly head-over-heels in love. Also cooking for each other is adorable (even/especially if the cook isn’t that great but is trying). Make one of the ships happy and I'll be happy!
If you’re writing Nathan/Katie or Nathan/Simone, I think it’d be fun if it was Katie/Simone who put the moves on Nathan. (He said something in an interview about having a secret wish to be swept off his feet for a change!) Since he’s a few years older than them, I’d love to see the “gain respect in the pool” dynamic. Maybe Katie/Simone says “if I win gold, I’m claiming a kiss” (or something like that, I am not suave)? And then events eventuate. ;)
Katie/Simone is an awesome ship that I really would love to see. Stanford girls kicking mega ass! They were Rio roommates too. So there is Much Space for fic.
Meanwhile Chad is an insufferable hilarious dude. I love him/Michael, with all that happened in the pool and out, and would definitely be interested in Olympics-fic about that. Rivals-to-lovers fic is super hot, and it’d be a lot of fun to see any flavor of that. (Except outright hatesex or noncon, please.)
~
Thank you for writing for me! I’m really excited. :D
