Yuletide 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: Competence, 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.
DNW list
• Basic: Infidelity, bullying, cruel jokes, noncon, dubcon, incest, bestiality, underage, character death (except in Sims), 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, bad dirty talk (if not joked about by the participants), someone not caring about their partner's comfort and pleasure.
My requests:
* Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo --- Nikolai Lantsov
* Air Force One (1997) --- Kathryn Bennett
* The Sims (Video Games) --- no characters in the tagset
* Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (Video Game) --- Carmen Sandiego
* Tennis RPF --- Sloane Stephens, Madison Keys
Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Characters: Nikolai Lantsov
Reading the Six of Crows series and the Grisha Trilogy, the thing I left Bardugo’s universe most wanting was MORE NIKOLAI. I liked both series – Six of Crows more than Grisha Trilogy – but there was shockingly less Nikolai than I craved.
Please fix this for me! Write me a story with Nikolai as the star, and I’ll be thrilled. Time period is up to you – I’m fine with anything from pre-Grisha Trilogy ‘young Nikolai has just left home’ to post-Six of Crows ‘and here is how Nikolai solves kingdom problems’. If you’re interested in Nikolai as a pirate (maybe a Princess Bride Dread Pirate Roberts feel?), so am I. If you’re interested in Nikolai mopping up the aftermath of the Grisha Trilogy, so am I. If you’re interested in Nikolai’s trip to Ketterdam in Six of Crows, so am I. You get the idea!
I’m not interested in any ships for Nikolai (except Nikolai/Ravka), or in any appearances by the Darkling. Canon ships for other people, particularly Six of Crows people, are fine in the background.
Other than that, I really want to leave your hand as free as possible, so if you have an idea of what you want to write already, please go right ahead! If you don’t, a few prompts:
• Identity porn – does Nikolai feel different as Stormhond? How did he come up with that identity? Does taking it off feel like taking off a mask, or is there a feeling of loss? Is Nikolai more comfortable as Stormhond or as Nikolai? Who does he trust (if anyone)? Etc.
• Something about Nikolai’s gift for invention (the flying ships!) Is that his true gift, beyond politics? Does he wish sometimes that he could have been an inventor rather than a king?
• How did Nikolai learn how to be good at politics/manipulating people/masks/etc.? Just out of desperation? Innate knack?
• An offscreen adventure Nikolai has at any point in his timeline.
• A day in the life of Nikolai Rebuilds Ravka.
• There’s an emergency on the day of Tamar and Nadia’s wedding, and Nikolai deals with it.
• The Six of Crows Kuwei-auction from Nikolai’s point of view.
• Nikolai helping the Ketterdam exiles settle into Ravka post Six-of-Crows.
Air Force One (1997)
Characters: Kathryn Bennett
I love Vice President Bennett! For this fandom, I’d love a story about Kathryn set right around (or during) the movie. I want to know what she was thinking/experiencing!
Here are some prompts to get you started, although anything in this vein is fine.
• What was Kathryn’s relationship with President Marshall like? Did they get along? Were they bitter primary opponents just now forging a closer bond? Did she agree with his speech?
• The Cabinet is trying to pressure Kathryn into signing the declaration and becoming President. Is it a difficult decision? Would it be easier to just let herself be persuaded? What is her relationship with various Cabinet members like? Does she trust them?
• Canon-divergence AU! Maybe Kathryn does sign. What’s that like when Marshall returns? Or maybe she doesn’t, and Marshall dies in the plane crash. Whatever happens, tell me what the aftershocks are!
• After the movie, Kathryn goes home and tells her wife about her hellish day at the office.
DNWs: Bennett in a het relationship (gen is fine, but otherwise f/f please!). I especially don't want Bennett/Marshall.
The Sims (Video Games)
Characters: No Characters Nominated
I’m a Sims 3 person. This game has given me so many hours of enjoyment, I swear. What I love most is the weird, wonderful, and quirky world. The career paths, the wishes (both lifetime and ordinary), the comical mishaps, and everything in between. Fighting mummies! Turning into plants! Having your Jimmy Sprocket book confiscated by the jail!
I’m not interested in pre-set Sims characters and storylines, or in heavy emphasis on content from the Showtime, Late Night, or Supernatural expansions (those are the only three expansions I don’t own). In general I would prefer a Main Character who is female, and f/f relationships.
Apart from that, go to town! The Sims sandbox is so big and I’m really excited to see what you might do with it. I’m putting a few prompts in case you want a jumpstart or in case they remind you of something from one of your games, but really, if you have a different idea, feel free to ignore these entirely.
• Main Character becomes friends with Death
• Main Character just wants to explore the Nectary basement and collect all this delicious nectar. What’s with all these mummies? (I love the WA expansion.)
• Main Character is being a spy in Egypt and infiltrating criminal headquarters, but then she falls in love with one of the criminals.
• Main Character is a mad scientist and just can’t seem to stop experimenting on all the household furniture!
• Main Character’s personality traits and her wife’s don’t always harmoniously meld.
• Main Character’s Lifetime Wish is to be Emperor of Evil. Her wife is a successful policewoman. This could be a problem.
• Main Character keeps accidentally setting fire to her house (should she stick to Autumn Salad?), but the firefighter is pretty hot…
But seriously, anything featuring your favorite personality traits/lifetime wishes/etc. would be great! I just love the Sims world and everything about it. Get as deeply Sims-nerdy as you like.
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (Video Game)
Characters: Carmen Sandiego
Carmen Sandiego was one of my very first fictional crushes! I would love to read any fic about her kicking butt and taking names. My favorite iteration of the game is the one with the bumbling henchmen who have little silly cutscene adventures when you arrive in new destinations, and Carmen taunts you throughout – I think it’s the 1996 version.
I’m most interested in gen casefic with Carmen running circles around the gumshoes (and getting away with her crimes – sorry, I am totally Team Carmen here). I love Carmen’s cat, and the bumbling henchmen, and the criminals on her crew that keep getting stupidly caught (can’t get good help these days!), but most of all I love Carmen and want all the silly, awesome, stylish, dastardly adventures. :D Anything that retains the canon style would be fantastic.
I’d also be okay with romance as long as it was f/f.
Tennis RPF
Characters: Sloane Stephens, Madison Keys
Sloane & Maddie!! I absolutely fell in love with these two women during the US Open this year. I’ve always liked both of them, but they were so fierce and awesome and played such amazing tennis this USO. Both of them coming back from injury, no less! Maddie had wrist surgery after Wimbledon, and Sloane couldn’t even walk a few month ago. They are inspiring, and fabulous, and fucking good at tennis, and good friends, and the medal ceremony after the final was the best medal ceremony EVER. So many jokes! So much banter! So cute!
I ship them mightily, and would love to read any cute flirting, falling-in-love, tennis-girlfriends story. When did they start flirting? Did they text to keep each other’s spirits up during their injuries? Did they encourage other during their comebacks (only to end up facing each other on the biggest stage)? Or did their relationship go from friends to lovers only during this USO? How might Maddie have congratulated Sloane for her victory? ETC.
Any of my general likes would be great here. Other USO bits I love that could be fun to include if you want:
• Sloane’s pressers this USO were absolutely epic!! The fly that attacked her, for instance! The bit in the post-final presser about the “girl, did you SEE that check?”
• The bit about Maddie saying Sloane would totally be paying for post-finals drinks.
• I adore Venus, so including her would be great too! Does she inspire Sloane and/or Maddie? Is she the one that notices that one of them is pining for the other?
Futurefic with Maddie winning her first Slam, and Sloane congratulating her (for any rating of congratulating, lol), would be absolutely lovely too.
A few more general prompts:
• Clandestine locker-room affection, whether that’s knowing glances, inside jokes, or snatched kisses when nobody’s around.
• Work hard, party hard!
• How a friendship deepens into love.
• Strength and athleticism in bed as a major turn-on.
• Pranks, shenanigans, tricks, goofing-off, etc.
• Sloane and Maddie having to figure out what it means that they keep falling into bed together.
• Coming-out fic (privately or publicly).
• Being competitive in the bedroom (because they obviously have competitive personalities!)
DNWs: CoCo Vandeweghe (except minor mentions of Maddie beating her), any American male tennis players appearing except Frances Tiafoe (that includes Jack Sock, Sloane’s ex), Donald Trump congratulating Sloane.
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: Competence, 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.
DNW list
• Basic: Infidelity, bullying, cruel jokes, noncon, dubcon, incest, bestiality, underage, character death (except in Sims), 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, bad dirty talk (if not joked about by the participants), someone not caring about their partner's comfort and pleasure.
My requests:
* Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo --- Nikolai Lantsov
* Air Force One (1997) --- Kathryn Bennett
* The Sims (Video Games) --- no characters in the tagset
* Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (Video Game) --- Carmen Sandiego
* Tennis RPF --- Sloane Stephens, Madison Keys
Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Characters: Nikolai Lantsov
Reading the Six of Crows series and the Grisha Trilogy, the thing I left Bardugo’s universe most wanting was MORE NIKOLAI. I liked both series – Six of Crows more than Grisha Trilogy – but there was shockingly less Nikolai than I craved.
Please fix this for me! Write me a story with Nikolai as the star, and I’ll be thrilled. Time period is up to you – I’m fine with anything from pre-Grisha Trilogy ‘young Nikolai has just left home’ to post-Six of Crows ‘and here is how Nikolai solves kingdom problems’. If you’re interested in Nikolai as a pirate (maybe a Princess Bride Dread Pirate Roberts feel?), so am I. If you’re interested in Nikolai mopping up the aftermath of the Grisha Trilogy, so am I. If you’re interested in Nikolai’s trip to Ketterdam in Six of Crows, so am I. You get the idea!
I’m not interested in any ships for Nikolai (except Nikolai/Ravka), or in any appearances by the Darkling. Canon ships for other people, particularly Six of Crows people, are fine in the background.
Other than that, I really want to leave your hand as free as possible, so if you have an idea of what you want to write already, please go right ahead! If you don’t, a few prompts:
• Identity porn – does Nikolai feel different as Stormhond? How did he come up with that identity? Does taking it off feel like taking off a mask, or is there a feeling of loss? Is Nikolai more comfortable as Stormhond or as Nikolai? Who does he trust (if anyone)? Etc.
• Something about Nikolai’s gift for invention (the flying ships!) Is that his true gift, beyond politics? Does he wish sometimes that he could have been an inventor rather than a king?
• How did Nikolai learn how to be good at politics/manipulating people/masks/etc.? Just out of desperation? Innate knack?
• An offscreen adventure Nikolai has at any point in his timeline.
• A day in the life of Nikolai Rebuilds Ravka.
• There’s an emergency on the day of Tamar and Nadia’s wedding, and Nikolai deals with it.
• The Six of Crows Kuwei-auction from Nikolai’s point of view.
• Nikolai helping the Ketterdam exiles settle into Ravka post Six-of-Crows.
Air Force One (1997)
Characters: Kathryn Bennett
I love Vice President Bennett! For this fandom, I’d love a story about Kathryn set right around (or during) the movie. I want to know what she was thinking/experiencing!
Here are some prompts to get you started, although anything in this vein is fine.
• What was Kathryn’s relationship with President Marshall like? Did they get along? Were they bitter primary opponents just now forging a closer bond? Did she agree with his speech?
• The Cabinet is trying to pressure Kathryn into signing the declaration and becoming President. Is it a difficult decision? Would it be easier to just let herself be persuaded? What is her relationship with various Cabinet members like? Does she trust them?
• Canon-divergence AU! Maybe Kathryn does sign. What’s that like when Marshall returns? Or maybe she doesn’t, and Marshall dies in the plane crash. Whatever happens, tell me what the aftershocks are!
• After the movie, Kathryn goes home and tells her wife about her hellish day at the office.
DNWs: Bennett in a het relationship (gen is fine, but otherwise f/f please!). I especially don't want Bennett/Marshall.
The Sims (Video Games)
Characters: No Characters Nominated
I’m a Sims 3 person. This game has given me so many hours of enjoyment, I swear. What I love most is the weird, wonderful, and quirky world. The career paths, the wishes (both lifetime and ordinary), the comical mishaps, and everything in between. Fighting mummies! Turning into plants! Having your Jimmy Sprocket book confiscated by the jail!
I’m not interested in pre-set Sims characters and storylines, or in heavy emphasis on content from the Showtime, Late Night, or Supernatural expansions (those are the only three expansions I don’t own). In general I would prefer a Main Character who is female, and f/f relationships.
Apart from that, go to town! The Sims sandbox is so big and I’m really excited to see what you might do with it. I’m putting a few prompts in case you want a jumpstart or in case they remind you of something from one of your games, but really, if you have a different idea, feel free to ignore these entirely.
• Main Character becomes friends with Death
• Main Character just wants to explore the Nectary basement and collect all this delicious nectar. What’s with all these mummies? (I love the WA expansion.)
• Main Character is being a spy in Egypt and infiltrating criminal headquarters, but then she falls in love with one of the criminals.
• Main Character is a mad scientist and just can’t seem to stop experimenting on all the household furniture!
• Main Character’s personality traits and her wife’s don’t always harmoniously meld.
• Main Character’s Lifetime Wish is to be Emperor of Evil. Her wife is a successful policewoman. This could be a problem.
• Main Character keeps accidentally setting fire to her house (should she stick to Autumn Salad?), but the firefighter is pretty hot…
But seriously, anything featuring your favorite personality traits/lifetime wishes/etc. would be great! I just love the Sims world and everything about it. Get as deeply Sims-nerdy as you like.
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (Video Game)
Characters: Carmen Sandiego
Carmen Sandiego was one of my very first fictional crushes! I would love to read any fic about her kicking butt and taking names. My favorite iteration of the game is the one with the bumbling henchmen who have little silly cutscene adventures when you arrive in new destinations, and Carmen taunts you throughout – I think it’s the 1996 version.
I’m most interested in gen casefic with Carmen running circles around the gumshoes (and getting away with her crimes – sorry, I am totally Team Carmen here). I love Carmen’s cat, and the bumbling henchmen, and the criminals on her crew that keep getting stupidly caught (can’t get good help these days!), but most of all I love Carmen and want all the silly, awesome, stylish, dastardly adventures. :D Anything that retains the canon style would be fantastic.
I’d also be okay with romance as long as it was f/f.
Tennis RPF
Characters: Sloane Stephens, Madison Keys
Sloane & Maddie!! I absolutely fell in love with these two women during the US Open this year. I’ve always liked both of them, but they were so fierce and awesome and played such amazing tennis this USO. Both of them coming back from injury, no less! Maddie had wrist surgery after Wimbledon, and Sloane couldn’t even walk a few month ago. They are inspiring, and fabulous, and fucking good at tennis, and good friends, and the medal ceremony after the final was the best medal ceremony EVER. So many jokes! So much banter! So cute!
I ship them mightily, and would love to read any cute flirting, falling-in-love, tennis-girlfriends story. When did they start flirting? Did they text to keep each other’s spirits up during their injuries? Did they encourage other during their comebacks (only to end up facing each other on the biggest stage)? Or did their relationship go from friends to lovers only during this USO? How might Maddie have congratulated Sloane for her victory? ETC.
Any of my general likes would be great here. Other USO bits I love that could be fun to include if you want:
• Sloane’s pressers this USO were absolutely epic!! The fly that attacked her, for instance! The bit in the post-final presser about the “girl, did you SEE that check?”
• The bit about Maddie saying Sloane would totally be paying for post-finals drinks.
• I adore Venus, so including her would be great too! Does she inspire Sloane and/or Maddie? Is she the one that notices that one of them is pining for the other?
Futurefic with Maddie winning her first Slam, and Sloane congratulating her (for any rating of congratulating, lol), would be absolutely lovely too.
A few more general prompts:
• Clandestine locker-room affection, whether that’s knowing glances, inside jokes, or snatched kisses when nobody’s around.
• Work hard, party hard!
• How a friendship deepens into love.
• Strength and athleticism in bed as a major turn-on.
• Pranks, shenanigans, tricks, goofing-off, etc.
• Sloane and Maddie having to figure out what it means that they keep falling into bed together.
• Coming-out fic (privately or publicly).
• Being competitive in the bedroom (because they obviously have competitive personalities!)
DNWs: CoCo Vandeweghe (except minor mentions of Maddie beating her), any American male tennis players appearing except Frances Tiafoe (that includes Jack Sock, Sloane’s ex), Donald Trump congratulating Sloane.
Thank you for writing for me! I’m really excited. :D
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