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PH 1 - Inception (2010), The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008), Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)

Request 1 by aspint
Inception (2010)
Mediums: Medium: Fic - Character, Medium: Podfic

Relationships:

1: Saito (Inception)

Freeforms: ALL - Gunslinger Girl AU, ALL: 1920s Prohibition Era AU, ALL: Canon alternate reality that was resolved persists, ALL: Castaways in Time, ALL: Character enters alternate dimension in which life is a porn movie, ALL: characters interact during a period of canon where they definitely didn’t originally, ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed, ALL: The Librarians AU

Saito's just such a compelling character. I love how he sits so strangely on a moral scale. A business tycoon, but wanting to "break a monopoly" rather than simply take out the competition. Listens to the snitch, then offers him up first to Cobb, then to Cobol. I'd love to see fic that looks at his wobbly moral line, how far he'd go to accomplish goals, or else what is too far, or how he came to be the way he is. Would SUPER love to see him being Part of the Team, and I have a soft spot for his canon interactions with Eames. Saito/Eames or Saito & Eames is not necessary, but I'd be happy to see it : ) I'm also very interested in his life outside the film: his company, his love life, his childhood, etc.

My thoughts/prompts for each requested freeform are in my letter!

Fandom-specific DNW: Arthur/Eames as a romantic ship, even mentions. They can both appear and have their usual dynamic (even can be "ship of you squint") but nothing overt or textual please.

!! Trans headcanons & t4t encouraged !!

gen likes:
character studies, unhinged toxic relationships, possibly unrequited love, anger issues, codependency, testing/breaking bonds, loyalty kink & exploitation, self-sacrifice, guilt complexes with a side of unhealthy coping mechanisms, desperation, obsession, soulmate AUs, roleswaps, 5+1 things

smut likes:
see letter

DNW:
setting AUs outside of requested tags*, domesticity, tooth-rotting fluff, age regression, break-up/make-up, kidfic, pregnancy/impregnation, infidelity, snuff, omegaverse/BDSMverse, hanahaki, watersports, scat, daddy/mommy kink, blade-side object insertion into orifices (exception: non-mutilation oral), use of term futa/futanari

*Absolutely fine to stack a requested setting AU on a canon divergence AU : )

Letter: https://aspint.dreamwidth.org/2696.html

Request 2 by aspint
The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008)
Mediums: Medium: Fic - Character, Medium: Podfic

Relationships:

Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell (The Mummy)

Freeforms: ALL: Alignment Swap - Canon Good Guys are Villains and Vice Versa, ALL: Alignment Swap - Good Guy Now Loyal To Canon Bad Guy, ALL: canon divergence - characters never meet, ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed, ALL: Like Canon But Some Characters Have A Ranma 1/2-Style Involuntary Shapeshifting Curse, ALL: World War I AU

I just love the way their paths all intertwine, even leaving fate & reincarnation out of it. I love Evy's and Rick's romance, I love how Ardeth goes from helping to caring about them, I love how Rick turns out to have once been part of Ardeth's group. Big swashbuckling romantic adventures with some of the most beautiful people with bananas chemistry... Can't really go wrong with these ingredients! Whether you write a getting together fic, or Evy/Rick & Ardeth learning to be Evy/Rick/Ardeth, or youre exploring it as an established relationship, I'll be happy so long as all three are mutally obsessed with each other!

Bonus points (begging) for including Jonathan in the fic!! I could take or leave Alex tbh, but I'm open to the idea. My thoughts/prompts for each requested freeform are in my letter!

!! Trans headcanons & t4t encouraged !!

smut likes:
see letter

*Absolutely fine to stack a requested setting AU on a canon divergence AU : )

Letter: https://aspint.dreamwidth.org/2696.html

Request 3 by aspint
Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Mediums: Medium: Fic - Character

Relationships:

Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan (Ocean's Eleven Trilogy Movies)

Freeforms: ALL: 1920s Prohibition Era AU, ALL: Alignment Swap - Good Guy Now Loyal To Canon Bad Guy, ALL: Blade Runner AU, ALL: canon divergence - characters never meet, ALL: Canonically Dead Character Comes Back Wrong, All: Jaeger Pilots Must Fuck AU, ALL: Pygmalion and Galatea AU

They just have such an excellent dynamic, which is silly bc I think it's best explained by Matt Damon trying to defend Danny to the crew but it's Rusty everyone goes to for help. The scene in O12 where they watch TV and drink wine together? Flawless. Rusty picking up Danny from jail? Hell yeah. They're casual but also ride or die in way I find so compelling, bc my usual ship dynamic is Mutually Obsessed And Completely Abnormal About It, but these two are so... chill. They trust each other even if they don't always agree with each other (both making mistakes over a girl smh) and they back each other's plays. Let me be cringe for a moment but they are 100% moirails with pails.

My thoughts/prompts for each requested freeform are in my letter! Sorry I ignore O13 I don't remember anything except Rueben getting thrown off a roof and a flimsy excuse to write off Catherine Zeta Jones but feel free to use stuff from that film if you'd like.

Note on the Wives: If choosing a setting AU, feel free to have the boys never get with the girls to begin with. If diverting canon at a point after either of them would have gotten with the girls, please don't pretend they don't exist or have them break up for contrived reasons. You can gloss over or imply it or whatever, but I'd prefer the girls be in the know about Rusty/Danny and there's trust and love involved in the arrangement :o)

!! Trans headcanons & t4t encouraged !!

smut likes:
see letter

*Absolutely fine to stack a requested setting AU on a canon divergence AU : )

Letter: https://aspint.dreamwidth.org/2696.html

PH 4 - Alan Wake (Video Games), Control (Video Game), Max Payne (Video Game)

Request 1 by estelraca
Alan Wake (Video Games)
Mediums: Medium: Art - Character, Medium: Fic - Character, Medium: Podfic

Relationships:

Alex Casey (Alan Wake) & Kiran Estevez (Alan Wake)
Saga Anderson & Alex Casey (Alan Wake)
Ilmo Koskela & Jaakko Koskela (Alan Wake)

Freeforms: ALL: Character was a werewolf all along, ALL: Werewolves AU, ALL: Soulmate AU - Marks for all important relationships both platonic and romantic, ALL: Soulmate AU - Platonic Soulmates, ALL: Soulmate AU - Shared Dreams, ALL: Soulmates share physical pain, ALL: Soulmate AU - Soulmates feel each other's emotions when apart, ALL: Soulmates Across Multiple Lifetimes, ALL: Soulmate AU - Soulmates feel each other's emotions the closer they are, ALL: Supernatural AU — Werewolves & Vampires, ALL: Take a bad thing that happened to a character in canon and make it even worse, All: Character deals with a canonical difficult situation worse than in canon, All: Time Loop - Character makes things worse before making them better, ALL: Mythological Creatures AU, ALL: Time Loop - Until Someone Survives The Loops, All: Canon Divergence: Canonical Traumatic Events Have Long-Term Consequences, ALL: Dimension travel to mirror universe, ALL: Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline, ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed

Please sir can I have some werewolves? Or soulmates, especially soulmates where there are multiple soulmates and platonic soulmates are a thing? I am very easy with shipping in this 'verse (Alan/Alice, Tom/Barbara, Tom/Darling, Fictional Alex Casey/Fictional Ilmo Koskela, Saga/David, whatever else you want to do!), but what I really love is the intense platonic relationships there are; the fact that love is the heart of this series but romantic is only one version.

There's so much bad stuff that happens. Let them marinate in that trauma. Let them remember loops where things go Really Bad.

Ilmo forcing everyone to continue the loop until they get one where Jaakko doesn't die. (Who died in other loops?)

Let them be fuzzy wolves while they go through all this trauma!

Use whatever POV and tense you feel comfortable in and that your story needs.

General likes: found family, cuddles, queer characters, polyamory, werewolves (mostly packs and the found family that tends to go with them, but also the fuzzy wolf forms), deep character dives, complicated relationships, relationships built on mutual respect and trust, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, biology/xenobiology, bleeding from psychic injuries, bleeding in general, pregnancy including mpreg (especially if it plays into that xenobiology thing), characters shipping their friends in a healthy way, reincarnation fic, wingfic, caring for injured or ill characters, listening to heartbeats/taking pulses, General Gender Fuckery

Porn: While I am not generally someone who goes looking for PWP, I can be 100% down with character heavy porn! I also love xenobiology in any flavor, including "this is my new pet species/supernatural creature and this is how reproduction works for them". I quite enjoy bloodplay and dom/sub dynamics and restraint; I am not a fan of scat, watersports, or body fluids other than blood and standard reproductive fluids used in porn, but if it's your thing feel free to try to bring me around! Praise kink is something I love.

Please warn for: animal torture/death; child torture/death; rape

Do not want: incest between canon characters; otherwise go wild!

I would love treats!

Request 2 by estelraca
Control (Video Game)
Mediums: Medium: Art - Character, Medium: Fic - Character, Medium: Podfic

Relationships:

Simon Arish & Jesse Faden (Control)
Jesse Faden/Emily Pope (Control)
Casper Darling/Zachariah Trench (Control)
Jesse Faden & Emily Pope (Control)
Casper Darling/Helen Marshall/Zachariah Trench (Control)

Freeforms: ALL: Character was a werewolf all along, ALL: Werewolves AU, ALL: Supernatural AU — Werewolves & Vampires, ALL: Soulmate AU - Platonic Soulmates, ALL: Soulmates share physical pain, ALL: Soulmate AU - Soulmates feel each other's emotions when apart, ALL: Soulmate AU - Soulmates feel each other's emotions the closer they are, ALL: Character A can see ghosts; Character B only finds out after they die and become a ghost, All: Canon Divergence: Canonical Traumatic Events Have Long-Term Consequences, ALL: Dimension travel to mirror universe, ALL: Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline, ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed

Look everything is better with werewolves. And platonic soulmates. And ghosts; it would not be the weirdest thing in the Oldest House.

Alternatively, Dylan tells us about many alternate dimensions; does Jesse end up in one somehow, or someone from one of them end up in the Oldest House with our heroes?

Use whatever POV and tense you feel comfortable in and that your story needs.

Please warn for: animal torture/death; child torture/death; rape

DNW incest between canon characters; otherwise have fun and go nuts!

I would love treats!

Request 3 by estelraca
Max Payne (Video Game)
Mediums: Medium: Art - Character, Medium: Fic - Character, Medium: Podfic

Relationships:

Vladimir Lem/Max Payne (Max Payne)
Max Payne/Mona Sax (Max Payne)

Freeforms: ALL: Character was a werewolf all along, ALL: Werewolves AU, ALL: Supernatural AU — Werewolves & Vampires, ALL: Ghost Story AU, ALL: Character A can see ghosts; Character B only finds out after they die and become a ghost, ALL: Soulmates share physical pain, ALL: Soulmate AU - Soulmates feel each other's emotions when apart, ALL: canon divergence - character death averted, All: Canon Divergence: Canonical Traumatic Events Have Long-Term Consequences, ALL: Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline, ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed

Okay but wouldn't Max's life be even more fucked up if he was a werewolf? Or in a world with soulmates? Or could see ghosts? Or was a ghost?

Alternately let Mona survive. She deserves it.

Use whatever POV and tense you feel comfortable in and that your story needs.

Please warn for: animal torture/death; child torture/death; rape

No DNWs for this fandom; have fun and go nuts!

I would love treats!

PH 9 - 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming), 밤에 피는 꽃 | Knight Flower (TV), 陰陽師 | Onmyouji (Anime 2023)

Request 1 by kaitou (misbehavingvigilante)
阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming)
Mediums: Medium: Art - Character, Medium: Fic - Character

Relationships:

Bo Ya/Qing Ming (Yin Yang Shi)

Freeforms: ALL: Magical Girl AU, All: Magical Girls/Boys AU, ALL: Superhero/Supervillain AU, ALL: Phantom Thief & Detective AU, All: Western/Wild West with powers/magic, ALL: Superhero AU

Likes:

5+1 Things

AUs**

Asexual headcanons

Banter

Casefic

Character Study

Canon Divergence

Competence

Age Difference

Daddy kink, gege/jiejie kink, uncle kink

Feral Behavior

Getting Together

Gender exploration (crossdressing, trans headcanons, rule 63 of what if x was born a different sex, etc, etc)

Happy endings

Hurt/Comfort

Neurodivergent headcanons

Possessive Behavior

Established Relationship

Worldbuilding

AU specific likes:

Magical girls aus
Everyone has wings aus
Soulmates aus
Phantom thief aus
Taking that fantasy setting and turning it into a scifi setting aus (and vice versa)
Modern with magic aus
Character is a shapeshifter and gets close to love interest in cute/small “animal” form aus
Witch aus
Fusion fic aka take that show/movie/what have you and insert the blorbos in there

DNWs:

Dubcon is okay, but it shouldn't manifest into full on rape/noncom (Examples of what I mean by dubcon: sex pollen, characters under the influence (of alcohol/drugs) and deciding to have sex, an initial no turning into a yes during a sexual encounter)

bathroom kinks (scat, piss, etc, etc)

underage content - characters should be eighteen and above during any sexual encounter

Extreme power imbalances between requested relationships, characters in requested romantic/sexual requested ships do not have to have an equal relationship, but they should still have autonomy and the ability to enforce that autonomy (i.e. boss/employee relationship, student/teacher relationship, extreme age/experience gaps are OK - provided all parties are above 18), but master/slave relationship is not. If it canonically exists in a pairing that I’m requesting, please ignore/omit that aspect of the relationship.

spanking from joking, to birthday spanking, as punishment, etc, etc

Permanent major character death, temporary is okay, though! (What I mean by major character death is requested characters/ships dying, or characters (outside of requested characters/ships) who play a large part in the story dying, so say if Character C shows up 50% in the story, I would prefer them not to die, but if Character C only shows up like 10% in the story, then feel free to kill them off)

Unhappy Endings ala character(s) breaking up, mass death events, and entirely hopeless endings where there's no chance of things/people getting better

Abuse should take place outside of requested relationships/characters, I would prefer my indicated relationships/characters not to be in abusive relationship, but abuse can still play a role in other ways in the story from other characters/elements outside of this (for canonical abuse in characters/relationships, fine to reference, just let it not be the focus of the fic)

breeding/pregnancy kink is okay provided it's *only* dirty talk and there's no chance of that happening, exclusion "eggpreg" with inert/unfertilized eggs only

kidfic as see above, mentorship is okay, but couple should not want/have kids of their own

institutionalized (therapy, *voluntary* inpatient treatment (even long stays) okay)

Came Back Wrong, if character is killed and becomes alive again, I want them to come back as they were before

Zombies or adjacent creatures that are mindless in their consumption of flesh (Blood okay! Creatures adjacent to vampires who may feast on blood and only blood are not a DNW, foxes who are known to eat liver and are conscious of their feeding rather than it being a mindless thing are NOT a DNW)

Cannibalism/vore between requested characters (Consumption of blood okay between requested characters)

Possession

Fixed dom/sub roles + formalized dom/sub + forced dom/sub by a third party/plot

Mind control/hypnosis/subspace

AU Specific DNWs:

school based aus (such as high school, college, even if they're teachers, and not students)

harry potter aus and mentions of the harry potter franchise/merch/author/etc

Aus/crossovers/references inspired by works from the author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

omegaverse (sexual, nonsexual, any variation of such)

cakeverse (sexual, nonsexual, any variation of such)

bio bdsm aus, as in no aus where someone is born/becomes biologically a dom, sub, switch

No powers aus (even if it’s a coffeshop/office/what have you mundane based au, I’d still like them to have powers)

Slavery aus

Fandom Specific DNWs:

Boya/Zhuque, Qingming/Zhuque, Boya/Zhuque/Qingming

Request 2 by kaitou (misbehavingvigilante)
밤에 피는 꽃 | Knight Flower (TV)
Mediums: Medium: Art - Character, Medium: Fic - Character

Relationships:

Park Soo-Ho/Cho Yeo-Hwa (Knight Flower)
Park Yoon-Hak/Yeon-Sun (Knight Flower)

Freeforms: ALL: Magical Girl AU, All: Magical Girls/Boys AU, ALL: Superhero/Supervillain AU