AUEx 2023

[plutonianshores]

Hello, AU Exchange writer/artist! I’m also plutonianshores on AO3, and I have several previous letters on this journal if you want to look back at what I’ve requested in past exchanges. I’m requesting fic and art for all fandoms.

I’m totally fine with any levels of gore in gifts, and am also fine with character death (including of requested characters). Additional background ships and combining my requested ships into poly ships are very welcome. And feel free to include any of your favorite kinks! Barring my DNWs, I am into literally everything, my biggest turnon is reading fic or seeing art with the creator’s fave kinks included. I also have no preference for top/bottom or dom/sub choices in any ships if you’re writing/drawing porn (and don’t have a preference for maledom vs femdom in het ships). Any differences in prompt length are solely down to what I have previous prompts to draw from and what I don’t, and are no indication of what I want more or less!

DNWs:

• Pregnancy (some exceptions listed)


• Oviposition


• Explicit sex/porn with prepubescent characters – you don’t need to specify age in the text, but I don’t kink on descriptions/artistic depictions of undeveloped or developing characters and would prefer they are all vaguely teenage or above for any porny fic/art. Backstory or offscreen CSA or young characters in sexual situations is totally fine!


• Permanent damage to or removal of genitals (genital injuries that are later healed is fine!)


• Trans characters having PIV sex (fine with any other types of penetration, including dildos/blowjobs/anal/etc!)

General Likes:

• Hurt/comfort & hurt/no comfort & whump


• Comes Back Wrong


• Trauma and/or recovery


• Casefic and/or monster-of-the-week plots in relevant fandoms


• Internalized homophobia


• Truth serum or other magical/technologically influenced confessions of love or lust


• Accidental Baby/Child Acquisition or similar kidfic, especially characters having absolutely no idea what to do with kids if that seems IC for them


• Soulbonds – I’m more into the "proximity or magical ritual or other events causes soulbonds to form" style rather than the "fated soulmates" style, and I love soulbonds that cause the members to share emotions or thoughts or injuries or pain

Art Likes:

• I love all art styles and mediums!


• Limited color palettes


• Blood, bruises, and other injuries


• Body hair


• Ship members wearing each other’s clothes


• Characters crying


• Dressing up fancy, clothing porn


• Casual physical contact

Smut Likes

• Any sex acts (vaginal, anal, oral, frottage, handjobs, intercrural, fisting…) are good!


• My favorite words for genitalia are cock and cunt, but I don’t have any I DISlike, so use whatever you’d like in written smut. I also don’t have any preferences for word choice for trans characters


• Characters being ashamed of their kinks


• Watersports – I am especially into pissing on or in someone, or desperation. I am not as into the sensation/taste of urine divorced from humiliation, marking, or desperation contexts, but it’s not a turn-off in any scenario


• Facials or coming on someone’s body


• BDSM, especially undernegotiated BDSM in consensual setups


• Gunplay and weaponsplay in general


• Breathplay/asphyxiation/choking


• Roleplay, especially consensual non-consent/rape roleplay

Stranger Things 1

I headcanon Eddie as bisexual rather than gay, so I’d appreciate it if you don’t include anything that explicitly contradicts him being bi (any other characters I’m good with any sexuality, including writing characters who have had m/f relationships in canon as gay).

Characters/Ships

• Argyle & Robin Buckley & Jonathan Byers & Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson & Nancy Wheeler (ST TV), Argyle/Robin Buckley/Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson/Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things TV) – I just want the whole gang to hang out! Any sub-combinations of ships among these characters are welcome as well, as long as it’s a team fic/art with side ships rather than the other way around.


• Barbara "Barb" Holland/Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things TV)


• Jonathan Byers & Joyce Byers & Will Byers (Stranger Things TV)


• Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson & Eddie Munson & Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things)


• Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington (Stranger Things TV)


• Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Eleven & Maxine “Max” Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler (ST) – as with the older teens, ships are welcome as long as the whole gang’s there (I have a special fondness for rarepairs, but canon and other popular ships also good!)

Tags

• All: a character is transgender (binary), All: a character is transgender (nonbinary), All: Trans Character (character's birth sex is canon sex) – I’ve read some great fics about trans characters in Stranger Things (I’m only on AO3 so I don’t see much art), and really I just want more! I’m especially fond of transfem takes on the male characters, but I will enjoy anything. I’m especially fond of characters figuring out their gender in the often-hostile environment of 80s Hawkins, and finding safety with their friends (and maybe getting to move away to a bigger city where they can start over with people who didn’t know who they were before)


• ALL: Genderswap to all female cast – can be combined with my trans AU requests or not! I just think it would be neat if Stranger Things was more female and more femslashy. For art, I really love seeing your takes on what characters would look like as women. Explorations of what about characters’ lives (and relationships, if all the canon ships are now f/f!) would change is really fun, using this as an excuse for femslash and/or more women in canon is also fun.


• ALL: Bodyswap – I am so fond of bodyswaps, especially if characters have to pretend to be each other in order to hide the bodyswap from other people. For my bigger groups, the chaos of a huge group all getting shuffled into each other’s bodies is especially fun.


• All: Changeling AU – listen, Will and Eleven are basically a changeling story already (kidnapped, parents convinced they’re dead, in Will’s case a fake body left behind). I so want to see the AU where the Upside-Down is Fairyland and instead of scientists it’s fairies taking El and Will. For Nancy/Barb – maybe in this AU Barb gets taken to Fairyland, and manages to make it home but suffers the traditional folkloric consequences of eating fairy food. And I would love to see any of the characters’ ventures into the Upside-Down reimagined through this lens!

Stranger Things 2

AKA the porn requests.

Characters/Ships

• Argyle/Robin Buckley/Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson/Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things TV)


• Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things TV)

Tags

• ALL: Bodyswap That Can Only Be Reversed With Sex, ALL: Soulbond Makes Characters Temporarily Bodyswap Involuntarily – the romantic and/or sexual takes on my bodyswap request above. I am especially fond of bodyswaps that continue to switch each time somebody has an orgasm – but not necessarily back to the correct bodies. And an Upside-Down-induced soulbond would be very fun!

Critical Role Part I (Foster Kid/Parent Prompts)

DNWs for these tags: DNW for this request: unrequested ships between any characters you make foster kids, any ships between foster kid/foster parent

Characters/Ships

• Caduceus Clay & Fjord & Jester Lavorre & Beauregard Lionett & Veth & Caleb Widogast & Yasha (CritR), Fjord & Jester Lavorre & Beauregard Lionett & Mollymauk Tealeaf & Veth & Caleb Widogast & Yasha (CR), Percy de Rolo III & Keyleth & Scanlan & Grog Strongjaw & Pike Trickfoot & Vax'ildan & Vex'ahlia (CR) – you don’t need to include everyone here! Feel free to pick your fave members of either group. I’m especially into Vox Machina being foster parents to kid versions of the Mighty Nein, but anything goes


• Yeza Brenatto/Nott | Veth Brenatto/Caleb Widogast (CritRole), Veth Brenatto/Caleb Widogast – I’m especially thinking ofVeth and Caleb (and/or Yeza) as foster parents here


• And in general, feel free to disregard my requested ships and have any members of Vox Machina or the Mighty Nein as foster kids or foster parents. Maybe some or all of them are being fostered by your favorite NPC? Maybe post-adventuring they end up taking in an OC kid or two?

Tags

• All: Characters are Foster Parents, ALL: Characters are Foster Kids, ALL: Foster Care – I just really love AUs where the characters are foster kids and/or parents. You can set in a modern AU (I love seeing how people translate the characters’ fantasy backstories to a mundane setting!), or you can keep it in Exandria (and I am especially partial to AUs where either Vox Machina or the Mighty Nein end up accidentally inventing Social Services). Like I said in the character section, for these tags I’m not particularly married to my requested characters, feel free to use any or all of the player characters!

Critical Role Part 2

Characters/Ships

• Caduceus Clay & Fjord & Jester Lavorre & Beauregard Lionett & Veth & Caleb Widogast & Yasha (CritR)


• Caduceus Clay/Fjord/Jester Lavorre/Beauregard Lionett/Veth/Caleb Widogast/Yasha (CritRole)


• Fjord & Jester Lavorre & Beauregard Lionett & Mollymauk Tealeaf & Veth & Caleb Widogast & Yasha (CR)


• Fjord/Jester Lavorre/Beauregard Lionett/Mollymauk Tealeaf/Veth/Caleb Widogast/Yasha (CritRole)


• Percy de Rolo III & Keyleth & Scanlan & Grog Strongjaw & Pike Trickfoot & Vax'ildan & Vex'ahlia (CR)


• Percy de Rolo III/Keyleth/Scanlan Shorthalt/Grog Strongjaw/Pike Trickfoot/Vax'ildan/Vex'ahlia (CR)


• Veth Brenatto/Caleb Widogast (CritRole)


• Veth Brenatto/Yeza Brenatto/Caleb Widogast (CritRole)

Any ships among the gen groups also welcome!

Tags

• CritRole: Cassandra Escapes the Briarwoods Instead of Percy I would especially love to see Cassandra joining Vox Machina in a similar manner as Percy did in canon. You could give her the full guns-and-Orthax backstory (I am very weak for women with guns) or give her a different class. (You can kill Percy off or have Cassandra and Vox Machina rescue him like they did Cassandra in canon.) I just want to see Cassandra having adventures and slaying dragons!


• All: a character is transgender (binary), All: a character is transgender (nonbinary) – any or all of Vex, Cassandra, or Percy as trans would be great! I’ve got a preference for not making the canonical women into trans men (genderbending them to some flavor of nonbinary is still great), but other than that, go wild!


• ALL: Genderswap to all female cast – I realize 2/3 of my requested characters here are already women, but I’d love to see an all-woman Vox Machina (especially but not only combined with Cassandra escaping the Briarwoods instead of Percy).


• ALL: Folk Horror – Whitestone and/or the Briarwoods seem like they’d translate to folk horror really well!

Critical Role Part 2

Characters/Ships

• Nott | Veth/Caduceus/Fjord/Jester/Beauregard/Caleb/Yasha (CritRole)


• Nott | Veth/Fjord/Jester/Beauregard/Mollymauk/Caleb/Yasha (CritRole)


• Veth/Caduceus/Fjord/Jester/Beauregard/Mollymauk/Caleb/Yasha (CritRole)

So I’m requesting various permutations of Polynein here. Feel free to include Caduceus as much or as little as you want, given his canonical orientation (although I do enjoy an aroace Caduceus who hangs around the team orgies to occasionally lend a hand). No need to put an equal focus on every member of the ship, I just like the general “everyone in the group is dating/sleeping with/etc at least several other members of the group” with a side of “full-team orgies”.

Tags

• ALL: Bodyswap That Can Only Be Reversed With Sex,ALL: Soulbond Makes Characters Temporarily Bodyswap Involuntarily – I love bodyswaps, especially the chaos of bodyswaps in large groups! Getting used to maneuvering in someone else’s body and using their skills, having to pretend to be each other for Reasons, fucking while bodyswapped, bodyswaps that swap again each time someone orgasms (but not necessarily back to the correct bodies right away!)


• ALL: Genderswap to all female cast – cis and trans women both welcome! I love seeing redesigns of what characters would look like as women, looks at what might have changed in characters’ plots if they’re women instead of men, or just canon but with more women and/or femslash.

The Terror

Tag-specific DNW: For the Porn AUs, DNW rape or dubcon while at work/between porn actors (rape in backstory or outside of work is fine, rape roleplay/etc scenes are fine)

Characters/ships

• Solo: Cornelius Hickey (Terror 2018)


• Solo: Francis Crozier (Terror 2018)


• Solo: Harry Goodsir (Terror 2018)


• Solo: James Fitzjames (Terror 2018)


• Solo: John Irving (Terror 2018)

I’m requesting a few of my faves, but I love everyone in this canon, so feel free to go wild with ships including them or gen pair-ups! If you’re thinking “my fave is too niche to include in this request” - they are definitely not.

Tags

• ALL: Weird West AU – Weird West is a great genre and I feel like with the themes of colonialism and hubris in the original canon, a Western would be a great fit


• ALL: Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies,All: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies – I especially love aftermath works, where we see the characters recovering from injuries and/or trauma (and/or the deaths of their friends/lovers)


• ALL: Character Journeys To The Underworld to Rescue Their Dead Lover – so many dead lovers to choose from! Feel free to draw from any mythology (or original ideas) for how you set up the Underworld


• ALL: Genderswap to all female cast – AUs where women can join the Navy are welcome, and I also have a fondness for a cracky AU where everyone is a woman disguised as a man to join the expedition, except for Sir John, who is oblivious


• ALL: Multiple canonical men are actually women in disguise for Reasons – I am very into crossdressing to join the expedition! If you’re also thinking about doing an AU where characters are trans, I’m very into trans man/cis-woman-disguised-as-man ships (or trans woman/cis-woman-disguised-as-man ships!) and the different views those characters might have on gender {this is left over from last round, when I requested some trans AUs, but I’m always down for trans characters}


• ALL: Ghost Whisperers AU - With so many deaths in canon, anyone being able to talk to ghosts would be great fun. A serious take is welcome, but I also have this cracky idea where Hickey can see ghosts and ends up pestered by everyone he kills (you could also take this in a non-cracky direction, of course, but I can’t stop laughing at the idea of him angrily ignoring Irving’s and Gibson’s ghosts). Goodsir would also be a fun choice, I could see him being really dedicated to helping people pass on (maybe that’s how they figure out that Irving wasn’t actually killed by the Netsilik?)


• ALL: Pirates – I imprinted on pirates young, and I just want to see the Terror characters swashbuckling on the high seas! They’re already sailors, we’re halfway there ;) They could all be pirates, or perhaps an upstanding Navy man is taken hostage by an infamous pirate crew (but maybe finds the pirates not so fearsome as they were made out to be?)



• ALL: Resurrection Is Possible But Creates a Soul Bond – maybe Silna can resurrect people as part of her role as shaman and ends up soulbonded to one of the men, maybe weird Arctic magic somehow gives one of the characters the ability to resurrect someone by wishing, but whoops, now they’re soulbonded! (Could be especially fun with Goodsir saving someone he’s not even particularly close with, but he’s a medical man, he can’t just let them die! Or go full crack and give Goodsir a soulbond harem!) I am especially into soulbonds where the characters share pleasure/pain/thoughts


• ALL: Time Travel to the Present - I love wo/man out of time stories, and would love to see some or all of the characters making their way through some sort of time rift and ending up in the present. I’d love to see what whoever comes across them makes of them, if their presence gets announced to the world or covered up, and/or how they adapt to the 21st century.


• ALL: Bodyswap – I just love any and all takes on bodyswaps. There are some swap combos that could cause real chaos (Hickey swapping with one of the captains or lieutenants!), or some that are less overtly chaotic but would still be very awkward as the characters try to hide that it’s happened (or perhaps they don’t try to hide it)

The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo

In addition to the trilogy, I’ve read the Six of Crows duology and King of Scars, and will have finished Rule of Wolves by work reveals. Feel free to take or leave canon from any of those in additon to the Grisha trilogy!

Characters/Ships

• Nikolai Lantsov & Mal Oretsev & Alina Starkov (Grisha)


• Nikolai Lantsov/Mal Oretsev/Alina Starkov (Grisha)


• Tamar Kir-Bataar & Nikolai Lantsov & Tolya Yul-Bataar (Grisha)

Tags

• ALL: Genderswap to all female cast – okay, my main rationale here is that Nikolai (and Tolya and Mal) as women would be Hot, but a look at how Nikolai’s life would be different if he’d been a woman would also be very interesting! (Tolya and Mal seem like they wouldn’t have as obvious differences, but I’m also down for explorations of their lives!)


• ALL: Pirate AU – I liked the Sturmhund parts of the books and I think it would be fun to have any of these groups be All Pirates All The Time. Transplanting the series plot into a piratical plot rather than a royalty/political one would be very fun, as would just taking this as an excuse for some piratey fun times at sea!


• ALL: Weird West AU – I love Westerns, and I think a Weird West AU would be fun to see with these characters! As with the pirate AU, I’d love to see an adaptation of the Grisha trilogy plot to a Western-with-magic/etc setting, or I’d love to just see any of my requested characters as gunslingers/etc

Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo

In addition to the Six of Crows duology, I’ve read the Grisha trilogy and King of Scars, and will have finished Rule of Wolves by work reveals. Feel free to take or leave canon from any of those in addition to Six of Crows!

Characters/Ships

• Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey & Inej Ghafa & Matthias Helvar & Wylan Van Eck & Nina Zenik (SoC Series)


• Kaz Brekker/Jesper Fahey/Inej Ghafa/Matthias Helvar/Wylan van Eck/Nina Zenik (Six of Crows Series)


• Solo: Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows Series)

In addition to the full group ship, for my solo Kaz I’ve never met a Kaz ship I don’t like if you want to get shippy. (I like pretty much all other ships as well if you want to include your faves!) If you’re going smut, I do prefer smut that takes Kaz’s touch aversion into account.

Tags

• ALL: Every time a new member joins the crew/team/company there has to be an orgy – Listen. I will take any and all excuses for an orgy, this tag was Made For Me. I so want to see everyone needing to join in an orgy to join the Crows. Matthias would be scandalized! Nina would be thrilled! (Is this Kaz’s idea, or is it some weird magical requirement for something or other, or is it just an old Ketterdam tradition?)


• ALL: Everything Is the Same Except Some People Have Resurrecting Genitalia – Resurrecting sex is another one of my fave cracky AUs. (Although I also enjoy it taken deadly serious with all the trauma that fucking a corpse to resurrect it would bring.) Nina is the obvious choice, given her death powers at the end of the books, but it would also be very fun/traumatic for Kaz if he could fuck people back to life. Or maybe this is Jesper’s secret Grisha power!


• ALL: Genderswap to all female cast – I’m into both examinations of how male characters’ plotlines might be different if they’re women (Matthias would have the greatest difference, but although Ketterdam seems fairly gender-egalitarian I feel like a female Kaz might have a different public reputation), or just excuses to add more women and/or femslash to the cast. For art, I’m really into redesigns of what characters might look like as women in general.


• ALL: Pirate AU – I imprinted hard on pirates as a kid, and a criminal gang is a pretty easy transition to a pirate crew! You can set them in the existing Grishaverse world, move them somewhere more like our world’s past with no magic, or anything else you like, I just want swashbuckling.


• ALL: Weird West AU – as with the pirate AU, I just love Westerns and want to see our characters in this setting! You can keep the magic worldbuilding of canon or go with entirely different fantasy elements, translate the plot of the duology to the setting or go with a completely different plot (or just Vibes with no plot, that is also A+)