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we heard crimes often and softly ([personal profile] badritual) wrote2018-12-06 12:03 am

dear creator

Dear Creator,

I'm excited we've matched up for [community profile] past_imperfect! Time travel is one of my favorite tropes and I'm thrilled there's a challenge exclusively for it!

I'm going to copy and paste some stuff from older letters, such as likes and DNWs. (Also, feel free to peruse other letters here.)

What I Love: I love ambiguous/happy for now/sad endings (though I am not opposed to happy endings in the slightest). I love things that make me think, and are not necessarily tied up with a neat pretty bow.

I love gothic horror/gothic romance/dark romance/horror/noir/etc. Space gothic, urban gothic, suburban gothic, I'm into all of it. Dark and romantic, even tragic and horrifying? Sign me up!

I also love characters dealing with mortality (of their careers or their lives), found family/families of choice, pining, minor miscommunication, undercover as married, mistaken for dating, pretend dating, enemies to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers, friends to lovers, poly/poly-v relationships, and epistolary/use of social media pastiche (use of fake texts, tweets, facebook posts, emails, and more. This is a good example of what I mean here. So is this, this, this, this, and this).

My main DNWs are listed below (exceptions will be noted):

DNWs:
• noncon
• underage
• violence against women (domestic violence or abuse, mostly)
• violence against animals/animal death
• A/B/O, BDSM, and kneeling 'verses (basically 'verses where the "switch" is always set to on)
• mpreg
• watersports/scat
• mundane AUs
• vampire and werewolf AUs

Stuff I Like:
• gothic/gothic romance/horror/ghost stories!!!
• pining
• miscommunication (within reason)
• poly/poly-v relationshps
• found family/families of choice
• undercover as married/pretend dating/accidental dating/fake marriage
• enemies to lovers
• enemies to friends to lovers
• popular clichéd tropes inverted
• amnesiafic
• epistolary/social media pastiche
• future fic
• casefic
• ensemble fic
• long-distance relationships
• complicated relationships
• power imbalances/power dynamics/power dynamics inverted
• professional/career jealousy
• small town AUs (small town in the suburban gothic sense, not cute, quaint villages and whatnot)

The following prompts are merely suggestions. I'll be perfectly happy with any combination of Stuff I Like, if none of the ideas grab your attention.

Fic and fan art for all fandoms.

Star Wars - All Media Types —

I'll make an exception for underage here. Just keep it vague, if you go that route. I do generally prefer Rebels-era Ahsoka in romantic pairings to TCW-era Ahsoka, unless TCW Ahsoka is paired with other teenage characters or is aged up over 16.

As for the Padmé/Anakin relationship, I'll leave that up to you. I'd just prefer that it doesn't take the focus of the story and there's no character bashing.


Ahsoka Tano
Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Cassian Andor
Jyn Erso

Group: Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader/Ahsoka Tano
group: Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader & Ahsoka Tano
group: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Group: Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor
Group: Rey & Ahsoka Tano


Accidental Time Travel To The Past
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Loops Erase the Bad Things You've Done
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Loops Erase the Good Things You've Done
The Force Made Them Time Travel
Time Travel Fix-It - fixing one's own mistakes
Backwards Time Travel Creates New Timelines
Changing the Past has Consequences for the Future
Future Character Accidentally Tells Past Character Their Fate
Time Traveler Has Sex With Love Interest Who is Dead in the Future
Time Traveler Has Sex With Character Who Does Not Recognize This Version of Them
Time Travel Fix-It
Time Travel Fix-It - Derailing The Bad Guy's Descent Into Evil
Time Travel Fix-It - Altering Non-Canonical Disaster
Time Travel Fix-It - Altering Canon or Backstory
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - No Escape
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Character Caused/Created Loop in Attempt to Achieve Fix-It
Trapped in a Doomed Timeline
Traveling Through Time to an Alternate Dimension
Time Travel Creates Alternate Dimensions
Star-Crossed Lovers Keep Changing Fate Only To Come To Worse Ends Every Time


Group: Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader/Ahsoka Tano / group: Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader & Ahsoka Tano — I definitely prefer Rebels-era Ahsoka and Anakin/Vader, as far as ages. You can handwave or mess with ages if you'd like. Anakin doesn't have to be Vader, he could be suitless and/or still Sith, or just Anakin. I just prefer Rebels-era for romantic pairings between them.

Any of my time travel tropes with Ahsoka and Anakin/Vader would be amaaaazing.

I keep prompting this one particular AU involving Ahsoka and Anakin, and I won't stop now:

Time travel AU where some jerk messes up the main timeline and an adult Ahsoka ends up zapped back in the past, dealing with a Clone Wars-era Anakin and a younger version of herself. Ahsoka would very much like to return to *her* timeline but that proves difficult, and awkward things happen between (adult) her and Anakin.

I'd very much like if it's super awkward and uncomfortable, because Ahsoka has the foresight of like being zapped from the future and knows what's going to happen to Anakin. Bonus points if she tries to meddle to keep Anakin from falling and has to time travel *back* again to fix her messes. Extra bonus points if adult Ahsoka ends up as sort of a big sister figure to little Ahsoka (and maybe gives her advice like "if you see the opportunity to time travel do not take that opportunity under any circumstances").

If that doesn't work for you, any combination of freeform tags with Anakin/Vader and Ahsoka is a-okay! The more tragic the better! This pair just really lends themselves to tragedy, like all Anakin pairings I suppose.

Other general ideas:
• something tying the Mortis arc in with time travel. Maybe instead of saving Ahsoka's life the way they did in canon, Anakin time travels and makes a big mess he has to fix (or makes no big messes at all, he just has to figure out how to keep Ahsoka from dying. Is he successful? Up to you, author!)
• Maybe something set post-ROTJ, with an older Ahsoka being visited by a younger version of Anakin, pre-fall?
• Ahsoka time travels to derail Anakin's descent into evil. Does it work? Does she make it worse?
• Platonic takes on the above prompts/tropes are also welcome!

group: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker — I'd love any combo of my freeforms with Obikin too! Especially the star-crossed lovers one, and the one where a character creates a time loop in an attempt at a fix-it. Lookin' at you, Obi-Wan.

Group: Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor — No specific prompts here. I would be very happy to read any of my freeforms with Rebelcaptain, though! Especially the star-crossed lovers one. I'd also love any of the alternate dimension freeforms with Rebelcaptain too. I'll be happy with anything you come up with, author!

Group: Rey & Ahsoka Tano — Maybe Rey time travels to the past or Ahsoka time travels to the future! Maybe an alternate dimension leads them to meeting. I'd especially love the backwards time travel prompt with this group. (I'm partial to Rey as Han and Leia's presumed missing-or-dead daughter, though I don't mind ReySky either. I just like that Skywalker/Solo connection.)

Also, the individual character noms mean I will be happy with any time travel featuring only that character, or combos of those characters in gen/platonic settings!

Supernatural —

Group: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester & Castiel
group: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester
Group: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester & John Winchester
Group: Castiel & Jack Kline
Group: Dean Winchester/Castiel


Character Accidentally Erases Past Self Future
Character Accidentally Tells Past Character Their Fate Future
Character Deliberately Tells Past Character Their Fate to Change History
Star-Crossed Lovers Keep Changing Fate Only To Come To Worse Ends Every Time
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Loops Erase the Good Things You've Done
Time traveling Character meets a younger version of their love interest
Time Travel Makes Things Much Worse
Meeting Currently Dead Character in Future
Meeting your much younger self
Reluctant Allies Go Back In Time Together To Save Someone They Both Care About
Time Traveling To Save Another World Like Maybe Narnia But Not Necessarily
Time Travel Creates Alternate Dimensions
Traveling Through Time to an Alternate Dimension
Surprise Visitors from the Future - Their Child(ren) Accidentally Travel(s) Back in Time
Love Interest Time Jumps Instead of Dying
Time Travel Back - Stuck in the Past with Younger Love Interest
Time Travel Back - Stuck in the Past with Their Own Past Self and Love Interest
Time Travel Fix-It - Altering Non-Canonical Disaster
Changing the Past Has Consequences in the Present
Trying To Change The Timeline By Preemptively Killing Someone


Group: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester & Castiel — Please feel free to mix any of my freeforms with this group. I'll be happy with whatever you write, as long as you avoid my DNWs!

group: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester — Please feel free to mix any of my freeforms with this group. I'll be happy with whatever you write, as long as you avoid my DNWs!

Group: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester & John Winchester — Please feel free to mix any of my freeforms with this group. I'll be happy with whatever you write, as long as you avoid my DNWs! If you want to get specific, I'd especially love the surprise visitors from the future freeform, trying to change the timeline by preemptively killing someone, and any of the alternate dimension prompts.

Group: Castiel & Jack Kline — Please feel free to mix any of my freeforms with this group. I'll be happy with whatever you write, as long as you avoid my DNWs!

Group: Dean Winchester/Castiel — I'd really like an AU take on the S12 finale where Castiel's death is actually him time-jumping into the past or future. Where does he end up? Does he find Dean in this new timeline?

Marvel Cinematic Universe —

Peggy Carter (MCU)
Steve Rogers (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Michelle Jones (MCU)
Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)


Group: James "Bucky" Barnes/Shuri
Group: Thor & Loki & Valkyrie (MCU)
group: Thor & Loki
Group: Shuri & Peter Parker


Accidentally Built A Time Machine
Character Accidentally Erases Past Self
Future Character Accidentally Tells Past Character Their Fate
Possessed by Time-Traveling Past Self
Time Travel Fix-It - Possessing and Taking Place of Enemy Character
Accidentally Possesses Their Younger Self
Star-Crossed Lovers Keep Changing Fate Only To Come To Worse Ends Every Time
Friends/Lovers Travel Back In Time Together
Time Loop - Trying to Make Someone Not Experiencing the Looping Fall in Love with You Every Loop
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - No Escape
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Loops Erase the Good Things You've Done
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Escape by Revealing Feelings
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Trapped in Loop by Villain
Travel to Past to Make Up for Lost Time
Traveling Through Time to an Alternate Dimension
Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That's Not Doomed
Time Travel Creates Alternate Dimensions
Rescue Team for Those Stranded in Time
Alternate Universe - Time Travelers Team Teaming Up with a Person from a Different Time Period for a Common Goal


I couldn't nominate Peggy/Steve, Peter/Michelle, or Thor/Valkyrie as pairings/groups but I am partial to those. I also don't mind platonic/gen fic with these characters either! Just putting it out there.

Please feel free to mix any of my freeforms with my groups/pairings, for this fandom. I'll be happy with whatever you write, as long as you avoid my DNWs!

Original Work —

Group: Modern Witch Who Accidentally Travelled Back In Time/Witch From That Time Period
Group: Psychologist & Time Traveling Patient
Group: Experienced Time Traveler & Novice Time Traveler
Group: Bored Retail Worker & Time Traveler


Lost in Time as a Ghost
Making friends with a past version of an enemy
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Escape by Achieving Mission
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - No Escape
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Escape by Revealing Feelings
Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Escape By Incredibly Absurd Means
Time Traveler Looks Exactly Like Their Ancestor And/Or Descendant
Castaways in Time Have Chance to Go Home
Falling in love with someone in the past and reuniting in the present
Character is Cursed to Time Travel Every Time They Fall in Love
Time Travel Through Being Under a Cursed/Magical/Mystical Sleep (As in Sleeping Beauty)
Character and Younger Self Switch Places Unexpectedly
Love Interest Time Jumps Instead of Dying
Time travel to realise love realised too late
Communicating Across Time From an Alternate Dimension
Traveling Through Time to an Alternate Dimension
Time Travel Creates Alternate Dimensions
Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That's Not Doomed
Trapped in a Doomed Timeline
Time Travel Fix-It - Possessing and Taking Place of Enemy


Group: Modern Witch Who Accidentally Travelled Back In Time/Witch From That Time Period
Group: Psychologist & Time Traveling Patient
Group: Experienced Time Traveler & Novice Time Traveler
Group: Bored Retail Worker & Time Traveler


Please feel free to mix any of my freeforms with my groups/pairings, for this fandom. I'll be happy with whatever you write, as long as you avoid my DNWs!

Once again, I'd like to stress that these prompts/ideas are only suggestions! Don't feel constrained by them! Mix and match as you please, or come up with something completely on your own without my input. They're just meant as a guide.

ETA

I'M SO SORRY I FORGOT TO FINISH MY LETTER, AUTHOR!!! D: