—COLDFIRE TRILOGY—
C.S. Friedman
C.S. Friedman
Gerald Tarrant/Damien Vryce
So I did a reread of the series for my fantasy bingo card last year and oh my god, I'm so sick for them!! I love everything about these two and their relationship - the very key differences between them, how they come to uneasy truces in the beginning that turn into bone deep trust, even though Damien second-guesses himself and overthinks everything as usual. I love Damien's referring to himself as "Priest" even in his own thoughts, and Tarrant being so fastidious and vain that he'll spend valuable power just to keep his hair perfect in poor conditions, how they both do so many little tiny things for each other that show just how much they care without using those words. AHHH!!!Prompts & Ideas
— Size Difference: Damien is so big and it fucks me up!!! It's mentioned so many times that he's built like a brick shithouse and I'm obsessed with it, especially compared to Tarrant, who is lithe and tall, but still so strong.— Bed Sharing: I really like a lot of good old tropes with these two - forced to share a bed because of terrible travelling conditions! Trapped in a small hut while they wait out bad weather! Tensions rise, Damien is cranky and conflicted about how much he feels for Tarrant, and cranky because of those feelings!
— Injury/Illness: We get so much of this already in the books, but I love it when one of them gets injured or ill, or pushes past their limits, and then the other has to help them back to health again. Cool touches to sooth fevers, shielding Tarrant from the sunlight, healing wounds together, Damien having to hold off fae creatures while Tarrant recovers from something, auughhhh!! I love hurt/comfort for this kind of trope!!
— Mind Link: Their mind link is everything to me!! I know it's to share nightmares so that Gerald can feed, but what if they shared more than just nightmares, wink wink. What if dreaming is the only place where Damien will allow himself to actually let go of his uptightness and give in to the feelings he has for Tarrant? I'd also love to see exploration of how it actually happened, because it sounded very erotic in the book but then we got like 0 description!! What if Gerald can feel Damien's conflicted feelings about him but most importantly, his feelings for him? Or what if they share these feelings during sex?!
— Post-Books: I'd love to see something about what happens after the series ends! How does Damien feel about Gerald now being in a different body? How would they deal with not being able to talk about it? More importantly, how would Damien feel about whether or not they had consummated their feelings before this? If they had, would he mourn the loss of Gerald's old beautiful body? Would he be recounting all the differences between it and the new one? If they hadn't consummated, would he have regrets about it? Would they both have regrets? I'm not sure whether I prefer it for them to have entered into a physical relationship before or after, so go with whatever you feel, lovely author! I'd love some angst with a happy ending on this one.
— Missing Scenes: I love travel style narratives because they give lots and lots of opportunity to explore scenes that might have happened but weren't described in the canon! I'd love to see something almost domestic - breaking camp and taking care of their animals, polishing and taking care of their weapons, maybe learning from each other or sparring? With little touches or charged looks and lots and lots of UST. Good shite!
Ship/Character specific DNWs
— I really don't want any unhappy endings for them please - I know it's a difficult pairing and I like hurt/comfort, but I want them to be happy and the comfort levels to be strong!!—CEMETERIES OF AMALO—
Katherine Addison
Katherine Addison
Thara Celehar/Iäna Pel-Thenhior
While I loved the Goblin Emperor, it wasn't until I absolutely devoured the Cemeteries of Amalo books that I actually got fannish about a ship and even some characters at all. Iäna and Thara are just too fucking cute and I can't deal!!! I love the slow-burn feel of their relationship, the layers and layers of UST and denial and trauma on Thara's behalf. I just love Thara so much too, he's very much a character archetype that I adore - the stiff, tightly buttoned up guy with darkness and pain in his past.Even though I hugely ship them, I'd also be happy with anything about them to be honest! I love it when Iäna is showing Thara his operas, or when they're having tea together or just sharing little moments together. But if you want to write shippy, then I'd especially love something explicit!
Prompts & Ideas
— Opera: This is kind of an obvious one for these two, I know! I love it when Thara gets to experience one of Iäna's operas, seeing his reactions and how Iäna thrives off that! I love Iäna's enthusiasm for his job, and how much he loves to share it with Thara, so it'd be fun to see him throwing ideas around with him, or discussing reviews or even just Thara letting himself hang out at the Vermillion with the cast and with Iäna.— First Times: What would their first times be like! Their first kiss, their first intimacy, their first time having sex?? I know there's a lot of first times stories around already, but I would read any and all variations upon that theme I'm not gonna lie. Insert "oh my god, 2 cakes" meme here.
— Domesticity: Again, I'd love to see any and all scenes of them being domestic with each other!! Whether from a non-relationship POV or an already together POV or a pre-relationship thing with UST and tenderness and and and- I wanna see Thara introduce Iäna to the cats! And Iäna to show Thara all his favourite, slightly illicit places (and Thara's response ofc)!! Iäna making Thara laugh, or them just hanging out at his apartment or at the Torivontaram!
— Size Difference: I just like to think about it...... willowy Thara, just a little shorter than Iäna but a lot thinner, ahhhhh. Also the difference in their dress and even their ornamentation, they're such a lovely contrast to each other!!
—SHADOW OF THE LEVIATHAN—
Robert Jackson Bennett
Robert Jackson Bennett
Dinios Kol/Kepheus Strovi [TBA]
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Ship/Character specific DNWs
TBA—THE SILT VERSES—
Carpenter, Hayward, Paige
Don't even get me started about this fucking SHOW. I've relistened to it a whole lot and it still breaks me every single time - the storytelling, the worldbuilding, the characters, the tragedy, oughhh I love it. Help.Ships-wise, I love Carpenter/Hayward and Hayward/Paige especially, and honestly I'd just adore anything about any of those three! I especially adore the horror inherent in the setting, so it'd be super fun to see something really going all in on that.
Prompts & Ideas
— Travelling: Travelling, arguing about music, road trip grousing— Character studies: I just really fucking love Hayward and would love to see any character study based on him, and the same for Carpenter and Paige!!
— Fix It: NO HAYWARD DYING!!!!! NOT ON CARPENTER'S WATCH!!
— Transformation: On Paige's side, how she deals with becoming the Widow, how Hayward would react seeing the changes in her after his absence
— Loyalty: Hayward having a bit of a knight/liege relationship with Paige
— Misc: As per the Words of Jon Ware: Hayward and Paige having weird sex and then not talking about it
—OUR WARS HAVE ENDED—
Caul Serrikane, Sore Morel [TBA]
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