chocolatebox letter

[badritual]

Dear Chocolatier,

Hi! I'm really excited to be doing this challenge again! (I'll probably be copying and pasting some stuff from previous letters here. You can find past letters here and here.)

Table of Contents

1. What I Love


2. DNWs


3. Stuff I Like


4. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types


5. Star Wars: Rebels


6. Blueliners (Webcomic)


7. Final Girls - Riley Sager


8. Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms


9. Check Please! (Webcomic)


10. Alex Delaware Series - Jonathan Kellerman


11. The Good Place (TV)


12. 9-1-1 (TV)


13. Pitch (TV 2016)


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 characters dealing with mortality (of their careers or their lives). I also dig 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, popular clichéd tropes inverted (i.e. gay for you, married in Vegas, A/B/O, soulmates/soulmate marks, etc), meet-cutes/meet-uglies, 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 (especially mundane AUs of fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural/etc. universes)
• vampire and werewolf AUs
• Anakin and Ahsoka portrayed as father-daughter relationship. (Plo Koon is Ahsoka's Jedi dad!!!! I will die on this hill!)

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)

Fic/fanart for all fandoms.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types —

I have some more Anakin/Ahsoka prompts here and here.

Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (Clone Wars) —
I love Anakin and Ahsoka, and the Mortis Arc, so anything related to that would be great. I really dug the Gothic elements of the story arc, so how about a Gothic horror AU?

The Son | Fanged God/Ahsoka Tano (Clone Wars) —
I was intrigued by this one but didn't have any real concrete prompts or ideas. Maybe an older Ahsoka is confronted by the Son/the Son's Force Ghost/etc., or she time travels back and ends up back on Mortis.

Maybe instead of just forgetting everything that happened there and never bringing it up again, the Son leaves a piece of himself inside Ahsoka (in this case, you're welcome to include all of my requested groups, like Anakin & Ahsoka + Ahsoka/The Son for example).

Or you can throw together some of my likes/tropes/etc. and come up with something that way.

Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (Clone Wars) —
I don't ship teenage Ahsoka with Anakin but I love the themes/arcs of TCW. I'd really like either an aged up Ahsoka, future!fic or time travel AU based on/inspired by/etc. Clone Wars. That is, you can completely ignore the Rebels continuity if you want.

Write an AU where Anakin doesn't fall but there are still elements of his darkness.

Gothic Romance/space gothic/horror/etc. would be loved. Or you can mix-and-match prompts/tropes/likes to come up with something.

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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Star Wars: Rebels —

Ahsoka Tano/Darth Vader (SW: Rebels) —
Maybe the climactic confrontation ends differently—with Vader taking Ahsoka back to his castle on Mustafar.

Or give me a Hades/Persephone AU where Vader or Ahsoka imprisons the other, hoping to break them down.

How about an Orpheus AU with Ahsoka trying to bring Vader back to the light side (with the requisite tragic ending)?

Or you can stick with canon and figure out a way to make it work.

Ahsoka Tano & Darth Vader (SW: Rebels) —
Any of the above prompts, interpreted platonically.

Or:

Ahsoka does succeed in locating and capturing Vader, but everything seems too easy; has she fallen into the emperor's snare or is there really hope to redeem Vader? (Slot it into canon or go totally AU, I don't care, I'll be happy either way.)

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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Blueliners (Webcomic) —

Blueliners is a hockey webcomic focused on Maggie Cole, a female hockey player, who joins a men's US juniors team. I was really excited about this one and loved the first few issues, but then it just...stopped and I've been clamoring for more content ever since!

(You can find the existing issues here.)

Maggie Cole/Tony Mancini —
I'd really love something dealing with Maggie and Tony's relationship (romcom of errors? yes pls). I'd really love pining, miscommunication, fake/pretend/accidental dating, basically any/all of my likes/tropes, especially social media pastiche/epistolary. Anything dealing with my Likes would be lovely. Maybe something showing how Maggie and Tony get from where they are at the end of the last update to a romance and/or friendship? Ensemble/team fic is also a plus!!!

Some ideas:
• Perhaps a story about how Maggie and Tony get to a relationship, after the last current update. What's that journey look like?
• What about something set in the future. What if Maggie gets drafted into the NHL and Tony doesn't? How does that affect their relationship? Is Tony jealous? How do they get past it? (If you go with NHL-set future fic I'd prefer "women play in the NHL" to "sexism keeps Maggie out of the NHL."
• Or future fic where Maggie ends up in the NWHL or CWHL after college, while Tony ends up across the country with an NHL team? How do they maintain their relationship? Do they suck at long distance?
• Maggie and Tony go to a baseball game and get stuck on the Kiss Cam. Sharing an awkward kiss unearths some equally awkward feelings on both parts and neither is sure if their feelings are requited or not. Pining, minor miscommunication, didn't-realize-they-were-dating to actualfax-dating. will make me very happy. :D
• NHL-era, Maggie or Tony needs an emergency date to the awards ceremony and calls up their ride-or-die BFF for a last minute favor...and it leads to more. Maybe one or both has an "oh no they're hot" moment.
• Maggie and Tony make a pact that if they get to [x] age and they're still single, they'll marry each other. Fast-forward to [x] age, they're both still single but only one of them remembers the pact or one doesn't think the other meant it, or something!

Maggie Cole & Tony Mancini —
Please feel free to reinterpret any of the above shippy prompts as friendship.

Also:
• Maggie and Tony go to a baseball game and get stuck on the Kiss Cam. Sharing an awkward kiss makes things even more awkward when everyone assumes they're a couple (maybe they're already dating other people, one or both are gay, they're just not interested in each other, etc.) and the frustration of having to constantly clear the air about their non-relationship status becomes a damper on their friendship. Show me how they manage to keep the friendship in the aftermath! Do they lean into the "fake dating" aspect at all, for reasons?
• NHL-era, Maggie or Tony needs an emergency date to the awards ceremony and calls up their ride-or-die BFF for a last minute favor.

Maggie Cole & Team —
Team bonding! Maybe they go on a long roadtrip and come up with silly bus games to take their minds off of the travel.

I'm big on "team as family," "found family"/"families of choice", etc.

You're welcome to include specific teammates, including Tony and Anders.

No Check Please crossovers...please. Thanks!

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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Final Girls - Riley Sager —

Quincy Carpenter/Samantha Boyd | Tina Stone —
I really enjoyed this book and the relationship that developed between Sam/Tina, as messed up as it was. At various points Sam/Tina comes off as the antagonist. I'd be interested in a "deleted scene" where Quincy and Sam/Tina have a moment together.

Ideas:
• A "deleted scene" where Quincy and Sam/Tina steal a moment together.
• Quincy reveals to Sam/Tina she doesn't really like her life and/or doesn't really want to be with Jeff, her fiancé, and one thing leads to another.
• Sam/Tina manipulates Quincy into a relationship, intending to later use it against her, but has an attack of conscience.
• Quincy visits Sam/Tina in prison

Obviously, I'm okay with dub-con / consent issues with this pairing, but no non-con.

Or go crazy with a completely AU scenario! Put them in space, or a gothic horror. No mundane AUs (coffee shop, flower shop, high school, college, etc.) though.

Quincy Carpenter & Samantha Boyd | Tina Stone —
You're welcome to reinterpret any above prompt as platonic, too!

Quincy Carpenter & Jonah Thompson —
Give me something set after the events of book, please. Maybe Quincy sells her story to Jonah, or perhaps Jonah feels something about Quincy's story about the attack in the park doesn't add up and he becomes determined to unearth the truth. How does Quincy feel with the intrepid reporter on her trail again?

You can even go pre-relationship here too, with Quincy and Jonah. Does becoming close to a journalist provide problems for Quincy, who's used to being so secretive?

Quincy Carpenter & Coop (Final Girls - Sager) —

Ideas:
• I'd be very interested in something pre-canon, set shortly after the events at Pine Cottage. In those early days, is Quincy's memory as unreliable as during the course of the novel? Does she become better about suppressing certain memories? Was she ever distrustful of Coop? He was obviously manipulating her for some time; did Quincy ever see signs about Coop she just chose to ignore?
• I was never convinced Quincy had romantic feelings toward Coop, though he was clearly obsessed with her from the start. How does that sort of imbalance play out over the course of their friendship.
• Or take me post-canon: Coop haunts Quincy, either literally or figuratively. Maybe she goes back to Pine Cottage to pay her respects and sees him there—or only thinks she does. Is she able to help his ghost move on? Is he vengeful or regretful? Is he still obsessed with her?
• How does Quincy view Coop after the events of the book? Does she feel guilty for killing him?
• In the novel, Quincy and Coop have one night together, before Quincy learns the truth about Coop. How does she feel in the aftermath? Does she still care for him?
• Quincy and Coop exchange Christmas gifts. (Fluff, dark fluff, or no fluff at all. It's all good.)

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms —

Please ignore Love Never Dies. I haven't seen or listened to it, and its very existence vexes me. I'm also completely happy if you want to mix in other Phantom canons, like ALW/ALW movie, and Kay!

I'm totally here for dark and/or angsty fic in this fandom (FWIW, this fic is the Phantom fic of my heart) so don't worry about incorporating a HEA/HFN ending if it's not working!

Raoul de Chagny/Christine Daaé —
I love Christine/Raoul and feel like Raoul has gotten the short shrift in fandom. I'd adore something focused on them, and their family, with Raoul and Christine trying to find and cling onto what little bits of happiness and joy they can. (With a dark slant? Even better. Maybe they're a little codependent, or they're too overprotective of their children.)

I'd love something post-PotO with elements of gothic, horror, the supernatural, and/or ghost stories. I love Raoul and Christine but the angstier, the better! Does she regret choosing Raoul? Are they able to be happy? Are they haunted by (literal and/or figurative) ghosts?

Ideas:
• Raoul and Christine in the aftermath of the novel. How do they cope? Do they cope? I'm particularly interested in capgras and cotard delusions and how one or the other (or both?) might impact Christine after her ordeal with the Phantom.
• Erik is dead! So why does Christine still hear him whispering to her at night, while she's lying in bed next to her husband Raoul?
• Raoul and Christine cling onto whatever slivers of light they can find after the darkness of the opera ghost.
• Raoul and Christine are constantly on the move, fearing the opera ghost will catch up with them (and not believing he's dead). How does this affect their relationship? How does this affect their child?
• A realistic exploration of Raoul and Christine dealing with Christine's PTSD following the events of POTO.
• Christine suffers from cotard, capgras, subjective doubles, or mirrored-self misidentification syndromes. How does this affect her relationship with Raoul, and her memories of the Phantom and her time with him?
• After the events of the book/musical/etc., Christine's behavior becomes erratic (sleepwalking, speaking to someone who isn't there, etc). Are she and Raoul being haunted or is the Phantom back?
• See prompts here if none of these ideas grab you.

Erik | Phantom of the Opera/Madame Giry —
The ALW movie really leaned into this one and I came away intrigued by the (dark, possibly messed up) potential.

Ideas:
• I'm really, really fascinated in how a relationship between Erik and Giry would go. I blame the 2004 movie for getting me started on this. The ALW movie seems to suggest Oedipal overtones, so feel free to incorporate that if you want. Perhaps after Christine and Raoul leave, Madame Giry swoops back in to pick up the pieces (ignoring the canon Leroux ending).
• Give me something vaguely Oedipal, twisted, and tragic between Erik and Madame Giry (you can incorporate ALW movie elements here, as they leant on that relationship IIRC). The more gothic the better.
• Or throw them into a gothic AU, with Giry the headmistress of a girls' school that's believed to be haunted. Giry doesn't believe the stories until she comes face to face with a living, breathing ghost.
• Go the AU route and give me a tragic soulmates AU, with Erik and Giry doomed never to be together. Maybe one of them (Giry?) rejects the bond, leaving both to suffer until Erik starts mentoring Christine. Maybe it's a soulmate mark AU, or a first words to each other AU. I'm really not too picky. It could be a tragic soulbond! (And likely will be considering the canon).
• How about a twisted holiday snapshot of Madame Giry trying to give Erik a taste of Christmas? Or Erik and Madame Giry celebrating Christmas together in Erik's lair? The creepier the better!
• I'd be okay with a modern AU here too. Maybe Erik's the struggling musician/music student Madame Giry's leasing a room in her house to and one thing leads to another.

Erik | Phantom of the Opera & Madame Giry —
Please feel free to reinterpret any of the previous prompts as platonic!

Christine Daaé & Meg Giry —
I'd adore something pre-canon focusing on their friendship in the ballet corps. Or perhaps something set during the book/musical/etc. that explores Meg's POV/feelings on the Phantom. (Hints/undercurrents of Christine/Meg are cool but they're not my ship!)

Christine Daaé/Raoul de Chagny/Erik | Phantom of the Opera —
I'm totally fine with Christine/Raoul, Christine/Erik and Erik/Raoul as secondary/side/background/etc. pairings to the threesome but would prefer the threesome as the endgame relationship.

This can be a literal or metaphorical threesome tbh. As above, I adore gothic/horror/ghost/etc. stories. If you've seen Blade Runner 2049, perhaps a ghost is able to consummate a relationship with Christine that way? Or maybe the three of them have one night together that doesn't make its way into the book/musical/etc.? As long as there are gothic elements I'll adore whatever you come up with.

Ideas:
• Christine and Raoul try to move on, but something keeps chaining them to the past. Erik is dead though... Isn't he?
• The untold story of their poorly thought out threesome. (Crack or AU is acceptable. Or try to fit it into canon!)
• Christine and Raoul start receiving unsettling gifts for their unborn baby. Is Erik communicating from the grave...or is he still alive?
• The three of them live together in Erik's lair. Grottos aren't the best place to raise a baby, though.
• Christine and Raoul mourn Erik's passing after reading about it in the paper. But then the haunting starts.

Christine Daaé/Erik | Phantom of the Opera —
Please don't feel like you have to romanticize Christine/Phantom or give them a happy ending! I'm totally okay with dark and/or unhappy fic for this pairing. I don't enjoy my Christine/Erik with fluffy HEAs. If you're uncomfortable with that, you're free to pick some of my favorite tropes/likes and throw them into an AU that would be more conducive to a happier ending.

No kid!fic for this pairing please.

Ideas:
• Greek mythology AU borrowing/mashing up elements of Hades/Persephone and Orpheus/Eurydice.
• Modern AU. Christine is a Youtube star looking for her big break and Erik is an influential music blogger who's obsessed with her.
• Superhero AU (think the Tim Burton Batman movies for mood/atmosphere/aesthetics). Christine is a young, up-and-coming reporter. Erik/Phantom is a masked anti-hero who reluctantly comes into the spotlight after a daring rescue. (Or he could be the villain she's investigating.)
• Rather then allow Christine to escape with Raoul, Erik keeps her in his lair as his captive. He thinks he's starting to get through to her and break through her defenses, but what if it's the other way around? (Christine sees your Stockholm Syndrome and raises you a Lima Syndrome.)

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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Check Please! (Webcomic) —
Kent and Jack (and their messed up relationship) are my favorite thing about Check Please, which possibly means I'm doing it wrong. However, I find their past really meaty and interesting to dig into, and I'm equally fascinated by where it could go if they ever tried to reconnect at some point. (I think this means I'm basically ignoring canon now.)

If you're going to mention/include Bitty/Jack please leave it as a past relationship/broken up/etc.

Please do not write Kent/Jack as an abusive relationship. That is, Kent abusing Jack or Jack abusing Kent. I'm totally fine with unhealthy/codependent/mutually destructive Kent/Jack (and I'll make an exception for emotional abuse that is physically non-violent) but stay away from physical abuse within an intimate relationship. Thanks!

References to/depictions of (past) drug abuse are okay. (I subscribe to the fanon that Kent found Jack after his OD.)

Kent "Parse" Parson/Jack Zimmermann —

Ideas:
• Time travel AU! I'd really love Kent (or Jack) getting zapped into the past and trying not to Butterfly Effect the universe and being unable to help themselves. What happens if Kent is able to keep Jack from overdosing? What happens if the epikegster went differently? Knock yourselves out. Preferably, endgame Kent/Jack or Kent/Jack friendship.
• A Groundhog Day AU, but from Jack's POV. Why does he keep reliving this one day in his relationship with Kent? How is it connected to the larger picture? How does Jack break the loop?
• Post-canon AU. After Jack and Bitty call it quits, Kent tries to help Jack, whom he's recently repaired his friendship with, get back into the dating scene. Kent soon realizes he still has feelings for Jack and has no idea what to do about them.
• Future fic/post-canon. Kent needs a friend-date for the upcoming NHL awards gala and asks newly single Jack. Everyone assumes they're a couple—including their exes—and Kent soon realizes he's developed feelings for Jack...again. Jack wouldn't be interested in going down that road again would he?

Kent "Parse" Parson/Original Male Character(s) (Check Please!) —
You're welcome to run with any of the above prompts and changing them to fit Kent/OMC, in addition to trying out one of these prompts.

Ideas:
• Post-canon or AU where Kent is out. Kent swipes right—and ends up on a date with another professional athlete (in a different sport). In no time, Kent and his BF are a celebrity super couple. Do they welcome the attention or shy away from it?
• Give me the sweet slow-burn romance novel version of how Kent slowly moves on from Jack and finds himself in Vegas.
• Win a Date With Tad Hamilton Kent Parson.
• Kent falls for a new teammate.
• Kent's new cat groomer is exactly his type. Cue Kent awkwardly trying to court him.

I'd prefer no crossovers with Blueliners, thanks!

I'm cool if you want to include past Kent/Jack in the background of a Kent/OMC fic!

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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Alex Delaware Series - Jonathan Kellerman —

This provides a brief overview of the series, with book synopses, though not for the latest one (Night Moves).

Alex Delaware & Milo Sturgis (Alex Delaware) —
I'd really like casefic that highlights Alex and Milo's working relationship, with an emphasis on the ~neo-noir~ of the series, and L.A. as a character. If it's set early in the series maybe show how they go from uncomfortable with each other (mostly on Alex's part) to comfortable and close by the latter books.

I'd also love a deleted scene or canon postscript from one of the recent books (I am caught up on the series and those are the ones freshest in my mind).

I'm a big baseball fan so bringing baseball into the proceedings is always appreciated. Is Alex a Dodgers fan? Or is he loyal to his hometown team? (I think Alex is originally from Missouri though I don't remember 100%.)

Alex Delaware/Robin Castagna & Milo Sturgis (Alex Delaware) —
I'd really really love a casefic/mystery with Robin as the main character (inclusion of Spike or Blanche would be awesome too)! Robin and Milo working together would be great, as would Robin and Alex, or Robin, Alex, and Milo.

Alex Delaware & Robin Castagna & Milo Sturgis & Rick Silverman (Alex Delaware) —
I'd love casefic in which all four characters get something to do (rather than Alex & Milo with minimal Robin & Rick, for instance. Maybe the four of them go on vacation together and stumble on a case.

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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The Good Place (TV) —

I'm completely caught up on the show!

Chidi Anagonye/Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place) —
I love how good they are for each other. Chidi inspires Eleanor to be a better person! Eleanor grounds Chidi! I adore them. 😍

Ideas:
• Reincarnation AU! I usually go the tragic route for reincarnation but I'd be perfectly delighted with a happy/humorous AU for them.
• They both seem to ground each other. Maybe a 5+1 fic where they did just that for one another?
• Chidi writes romance novels under a pseudonym...and he happens to be Eleanor's favorite author. What happens when she tracks him down and finds out he's not at all what she expected?
• Chidi and Eleanor have to pretend to be married and hijinx ensue.
• Post-series (AU or future fic) where everyone gets another chance to live their lives. Show me Chidi and Eleanor building a relationship in the aftermath of their experiences!
• I'd be totally fine with kid!fic for this pairing, especially accidental baby acquisition (totally fine if they have to give the kid back at the and of the day). Are they any good at it? Does raising a baby together—if only for a short while—change their perspective of the other?

ETA:
A few more ideas, post-3x11
• A 5 + 1 fic where they role-play together (for sexy reasons and/or just for fun).
• A missing scene with Chidi and Eleanor and that mailroom closet.

Janet/Michael (The Good Place) —
I've been intrigued by this pairing since the beginning of S3. I love them working as a team and can easily see it turning romantic if the writers wanted it to go that way.

Ideas:
• Janet and Michael go undercover as a couple and realize they work pretty well together.
• Janet doesn't notice she's gotten over Jason until she realizes she's thinking a lot more about Michael instead.
• Is a demon capable of feeling Feelings? Janet decides to investigate and accidentally falls for Michael.
• AU where they're still in the neighborhood, or something canon(ish) compliant set before the S1 twist reveal. Michael's feelings for Janet are complicated—he's kind of her employer but also sort of a friend and mentor, too—and he soon finds that they're interfering with his effectiveness.
• Something with fairytale themes/elements would be nice! Janet as the enchanted doll that comes to life! Michael as a fairy godfather of sorts! Go wild!

ETA:
A few more ideas, post-3x11
• After the events in 3x11 (either ignoring 3x12 or fitting in as missing scene(s)) Michael helps Janet deal with her feelings for Jason in increasingly disastrous (but funny) ways, leading to Janet/Michael.

Tahani Al-Jamil/Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place) —
I hadn't given this pairing much thought until the episode where Chidi accompanies Tahani to Kamilah's exhibit and suddenly I was into it.

Ideas:
• During one of the many reboots, Chidi and Tahani were soulmates. For some reason—meddling from Michael and Janet? Shawn? Gen?—the memories come back and they have to figure out where to go from here.
• post-episode postscript or deleted scene with a little emotional hurt/comfort that becomes ~more~
• Friends-to-lovers set during the course of the series.

Tahani Al-Jamil/Chidi Anagonye/Jianyu Li | Jason Mendoza/Eleanor Shellstrop —
Anything goes! I have no specific prompts for this one. Maybe the four of them hook up, or are actually in a poly relationship. Why do they work so well together?

ETA:
A few more ideas, post-3x11
• Instead of Chidi/Eleanor going on their first date together it's somehow all four of them. (Including the mailroom closet.)

Tahani Al-Jamil/Jianyu Li | Jason Mendoza (The Good Place) —
I'm not really picky about this one either! I love romcom tropes, and comedies of errors, and I'll be happy with whatever you come up with. If you need some ideas, feel free to combine/mix and match tropes and likes for something you think I might enjoy. :D I think those would work well with Tahani and Jason. They're fun together, and that's what I like about them.

I'm fine with background/past/broken up Janet/Jason but it's not my ship!

ETA:
A few more ideas, post-3x11
• In the course of trying to get Jason and Janet to talk about their feelings, Tahani realizes she actually legitimately has feelings for Jason. Minor miscommunication, light angst, and pining would be lovely, especially if Tahani thinks Jason and Janet are together again before finding out they've resolved their issues but are remaining friends.
• Tahani actually tries setting Jason and Janet up after 3x11 but her plans keep failing and she can't figure out why. A slow realization of feelings on both Tahani's and Jason's parts, with a dash of angst and pining, would be cool. (What's going on with Janet/Jason? Maybe Tahani just misreads their relationship, they try to get back together but they've both moved on, they're just friends, etc. It doesn't have to be a big part of the story (or any part) but if it is I'd love for it to be resolved amicably without a lot of angst.)
• After Tahani ends hers and Jason's marriage, neither are sure of where they stand with the other. How do they work things out? I'd love them ending the marriage but realizing they actually want to be together and figuring out how to do that.
• Or it turns out their sham marriage is much harder to get out of. However, during their many attempts to get out of it, Tahani and Jason realize they might actually want to stay together but aren't sure of what the other wants. Light angst, mutual pining, fake/pretend relationship becoming real, etc., are all my jam. :D

I don't ship Eleanor/Tahani outside of the OT3/OT4 and would prefer little to no mention of it in a Chidi/Eleanor fic, but I'm 100% fine with it as the main focus of an OT3/OT4 fic, provided the other pairings don't get neglected.

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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9-1-1 (TV) —

I'm completely caught up on the show!

You can mention/include background pairings like Bobby/Athena, Hen/Karen, past Abby/Buck, etc. I'd prefer no Maddie/abusive ex.

Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 (TV)) —
• Eddie gets invited by the Dodgers to throw out the first pitch at a game, which causes some issues between he and Buck. It turns out that Buck is the bigger baseball fan and he's super jealous that he wasn't the one asked to throw out the first pitch—until Eddie reveals he knows next to nothing about baseball and needs Buck to help him perfect his form. And then one thing leads to another...
• Accidental dating/didn't-realize-they-were-dating fic! Buck doesn't cotton on to the fact he and Eddie are basically a couple until they decide to start sharing a bed ~platonically~.
• What happens when Abby comes back after Buck and Eddie have started dating?
• Buck's always known he's bi. That's not the problem. The problem is he's afraid to jump into another relationship after Abby all but abandoned him. How does Eddie convince Buck to give it them a chance? (No character bashing of Abby or Buck/Abby. I liked their relationship, but I think Abby leaving and then kinda ghosting Buck would be hard on him.)
• Groundhog Day AU! From either Buck's or Eddie's POV. What finally breaks the loop?
• Outsider POV (preferably that elf at the end of the fall finale) of Buck/Eddie.

Maddie Buckley/Howie "Chimney" Han (9-1-1 (TV)) —
I love the potential for a sweet second-chance romance with Chimney and Maddie! I also like seeing an Asian man portrayed as attractive and competent (I feel like I don't see that nearly as often as I'd like to).

Also, I'm Korean so anything to do with Korean culture/family/life/etc. would be awesome. :D

• Maddie and Chimney go on their first "real date" and everything that could go wrong does—but it's still the best date either has been on.
• Marriage/relationship of convenience and/or fake fating: Maddie and Chimney have to get married or pretend to be in a relationship. Maybe Chimney gets entered in a Hot Married Firefighter contest or something (dealer's choice!) and Maddie volunteers to be his significant other. Or maybe they make a marriage pact, vowing to marry each other if they're both still single in year [x] or at [x] age.
• Chimney brings Maddie home to meet his traditional Korean family.
• A 5+1 fic structured around food (Korean food?), "their" songs, quotes from the show, etc.

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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Pitch (TV 2016) —

Please feel free to handwave away Livan's canon significant other.

Ginny Baker/Livan Duarte (Pitch TV) —
ANYTHING with Ginny and Livan would be lovely! Set within the show's canon or post-canon would be super great. Perhaps Mike retires and Ginny and Livan are left to lead the team to glory! Or maybe it's set in the way way future after Ginny's left San Diego for free agency, and she and Livan reconnect at the All-Star Game or something. Whatever, I'm not picky! I'll be happy with anything Ginny/Livan.

Ideas:
• Having recently dumped Noah, Ginny is short a plus one for the MLB's awards show gala. Livan offers to go with her and everything is going smoothly until they get trapped in an elevator together. Who calms whom down with kissing/cuddling/sex/etc.? Are they able to get out in time for Ginny to accept her award (and/or Livan too, for that matter)?
• Orrrr... this idea but without the getting trapped in the elevator part!
• When Ginny is in high school, she exchanges letters with a pen pal as part of her social studies class. The pen pal turns out to be Livan, her new Padres teammate—and he kept all her letters. Write me how they fell in love through their letters! Tell me the story of how Ginny was Livan's first love, and/or vice versa.
• Livan helps Ginny pick up the pieces when she breaks up with Noah, purely as a friend. But somehow lines get blurred, and Ginny and Livan meander their way into a relationship without realizing it.
• Fantasy AU, with Ginny as a newly elected queen and Livan as her knight.
• Space opera AU! Space pirate Ginny abducts space prince Livan to use him as leverage...but she wasn't expecting to fall for him.
• Ginny and Livan get trapped together in a hotel elevator on the road and end up bonding... And possibly more.

Ginny Baker/Mike Lawson (Pitch) —
• Ginny and Mike move in together and fall into a relationship without realizing it. Maybe she has to leave her current living situation and Mike has a spare room. Maybe they move in together to cut down on rent. Whatever the case, they end up living together, then they end up waking up and realizing they're basically dating. How do they deal with it?
• What happens when the Padres go into rebuilding mode and Ginny gets traded. Do they suck at the long distance thing? Do they totally nail it? Does Ginny going from the Padres to a playoff contender affect their relationship (maybe MIke's jealous he's stuck or Ginny would rather be on the Padres, etc)
• I feel like Pitch works really well with social media/epistolary fic. Tell me a story in tweets, blog posts, news articles, interview transcripts, etc. about Ginny and Mike's relationship.
• You also can never go wrong with a space opera AU.
• Future!fic. After Mike Lawson retired following the Padres' World Series appearance (and Ginny's third season), he disappeared from the game. He didn't take any sportscasting gigs or write a tell-all. He didn't join the minor league ranks as a coach. He quite literally disappeared and no one knows why—except Ginny Baker. Now, Ginny's preparing for her final season when Lawson suddenly reappears in her life after years of little to no contact. Why did he leave? Can they recapture the magic they once had?

Ginny Baker & Tommy Miller (Pitch TV) —
I really liked the glimpse of this friendship, going from enemies/rivals to friends. Maybe the Cubs and Padres meet in the playoffs and Ginny and Tommy face each other. Or maybe they hang out during their postseason series and eyebrows are raised? Or heck, maybe Ginny babysits Jimmy (Tommy and Tessa's son) for Tommy. Anything with their friendship would be lovely! (Ginny/Tommy implications are acceptable.)

Ginny and Tommy's friendship, after an initial rocky reception, was an unexpected surprise for me. So too was Tommy's trade and the sad feels I felt. 😂 Maybe Ginny and Tommy meet again at the subsequent All-Star Game! Or maybe they train together during the offseason, when Ginny's rehabbing her arm injury.

Do the Cubs still win the World Series in the Pitch universe? Maybe Ginny attends a game in support of her friend.

I'd like to think if the show had gotten a second season, we could have seen the further development of Ginny and Tommy's friendship, with Tommy now on the Cubs.

Art: Art-wise, I'm drawn to bold lines and vibrant colors. As for style, style is subjective but I'm not really into chibis. Anything else goes.
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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.

Check out my other dear author letters here for a better idea of the kind of tropes I like! If you have further questions, feel free to reach out to the mods and I'll try to respond ASAP. :)

ETA 1-11-2019
I've made some edits to prompts to reflect new canon!