Little Black Dress 2022

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Little Black Dress 2022

Dear Stylist,

I’m so excited for this exchange :D I am a dirty little multishipper at heart, and so many of my favourite ships have come from curiously checking out fic and/or art for pairings I never thought of before. But also, indulging in pairings I already love for characters I adore?! Just as wonderful. There’s no way to lose in this exchange!!

I opt into this below, but to be clear, given the nature of this exchange: I love and would welcome mutual pining (or get together or established relationship!). BUT I also love unrequited/one-sided pining, rejection, heartbreak, a person in a ship dying, having to kill your object of pining, haunted by your dead lover etc. So feel free to explore the bounds of what counts as a ship!

For all the ships, I’m also open to any level of consent, but I get into that more below in each section, with particulars. Also, since this came up last year: feel free to explore multiple ships for my LBD character within the one fic (i.e. In a 5+1 situation, or one ship breaks up and another gets together, etc.).

I have a section of art likes with some short prompts! But feel free to use any other prompts, too, or anything from my general likes. (Equally, fic writers, feel free to pillage from my art likes!).

Lastly, and relatedly, I had some trouble coming up with prompts when I only knew one member of the ship! I’m pretty easy breezy, though, so if a creator thinks of something from any of my lists, or even not on any of my likes lists or prompts that you think I’ll like, go for it! As long as it isn’t a DNW, I’m extremely open to it.

General Likes
Art Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The Mummy
The Batman
Battlestar Galactica

General Likes

- Casefic
- Darkfic *
- PWP
- Angst, all the angst, there is seriously no such thing as "too much angst"
- Hurt/comfort & whump **
- Second Person POV
- Pining, including unrequited even for requested ships
- Bathing/washing, being dried with a towel
- Power dynamics being explored
- Forced proximity setups: snowed in, trapped/stranded/handcuffed together, huddling for warmth, too sick to move, captivity etc.
- Being emotionally overloaded or overwhelmed
- Height differences
- Touch-starved or stoic characters
- Sad or self-destructive or angry or self-loathing characters, suffering for any reason but also possibly for reasons they brought on themselves
- Betrayals, real or imagined
- Bisexual characters
- Ghosts
- Cooking and food, especially food sharing
- Enemies and annoyances to lovers, rivalries especially flirty ones
- Lotsa repressed feelings
- Regrets, rejections, repression, all those angsty things
- Loss of mental or bodily autonomy (i.e. through possession, drugs, sex pollen, truth serum, body swaps, manipulation, curses etc.)
- Soulmate AUs especially words/last words, especially when this trope is plumbed for angst or twisted to be horror
- Rule 63
- Tropes like body swaps, time loops, time travel etc.
- Horror ***
- Nonsexual intimacy
- Guilt-laden infidelity
- Messy characters in extremely messy situations

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Things sometimes considered "opt-in" that I enjoy: mentioned past relationships or background ships, major character death, experimental formats inc. interactive fiction, pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, graphic violence, sad or ambiguous endings, pandemics, suicide, self-harm, ships breaking up or one/both of them dying (or killing each other)

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All of the below are non-exhaustive lists to illustrate what I like in some of my broader likes — but feel free to go off-script if you think it’ll fit a ship well. As long as it doesn’t hit my DNWs, I’m pretty open!

*Things I like in darkfic: noncon and dub con; Came Back Wrong; Something Made Them Do It; betrayal; grief; dealing with past trauma or receiving the trauma within the fic; suicide or dealing with suicidal thoughts (or being gaslit into suicide); being haunted (figuratively or literally) by past wrongs they committed; actions motivated by self-loathing or loneliness; torture; revenge; non-consensual non-sexual actions; boundary violations, and anything appropriate from any other list :D You can’t really go too bleak or upsetting for me, in general.

**Things I like in hurt/comfort: whump; sickness; injury; comfort from the enemy; being severely bloodied or beaten; overworking to the point of sickness; touch-starvation; emotional hurt heaped high; feeling dead inside; feeling undeserved of comfort; bathing/washing; comfort applied by the person who hurt them; being embarrassed about their hurt; the comforter being embarrassed or guilty that they are attracted to or aroused by the hurt party; pregnancy and related sickness or discomfort; sex as comfort; all the pining possible; being hurt trying to protect the person they care about; forced proximity; crying when you’ve been trying so hard to hold it in

***Things I like in horror: please see my Holiday Horror and Multifandom Horror lists for both horror tropes I like and horror canons I enjoy and wouldn’t mind seeing emulated or pastiched.

Art Likes

I like a wide variety of art! Yeah, very helpful, I know, but I really do! Bold colours, black & white/greyscale, jewel tones, dark neons, pixel art etc.

I love interesting compositions and perspectives, and shots that feel like the characters were caught in the moment — intimacy, basically. I really like dark and angsty or intimate and intense vibes, or any kind of creeping dread or tentative atmospheres.

A smattering of ideas, that goes for all ships, where appropriate:
- Size differences
- Kneeling
- Kissing - on mouths, along jaws, hands/fingers, on ears, thighs, wrists, the delicate skin on the inside of the elbow etc. etc. Wherever lips can touch, I like to see kisses *_*
- Holding hands while fucking
- Frotting
- Frottage
- Oral sex
- Being bent over furniture
- Spanking + associated redness
- Lap sex
- Hands in hair (and/or hair pulling)
- Cigarettes + smoking
- Being burnt/burning someone with cigarettes
- Jaw clutching/touching
- Abstract or symbolic imagery
- Blushing
- Stolen moments/touches
- Bad touches
- Nose kisses
- Ghosts/hauntings
- Creepy or foreboding locales
- Cuddling
- Someone sitting inside another’s legs
- Tarot cards
- Bruises/scratches/markings of any kind
- Someone being hoisted up by another person, especially against a wall
- Wall sex, also
- Blood in any form
- Vampire AUs with vampire bites or feeding
- Representations of fear/feeling small/reeling from rejection
- Crying
- Someone being "out of reach", whether literal or metaphorical
- Mourning
- Clothes used as bondage
- Gripping someone by the neck
- Needleplay
- Big hands against small hands or faces
- Hands/fingers in general
- "Puppet master"-style imagery
- Holding someone by knife/gun/swordpoint
- Threateningly close encounters
- Not being able to bare to look at the person giving them pleasure
- Hurt, in any form: physical, emotional & sexual
- Comfort, the same

I don’t have specific art-related DNWs. Any rating or level of consent welcome.

I hope my prompts below are useful for art too, but as I’m still pretty new to prompting for art, take whatever liberties you want to. You know better what works than I do!

Smut Likes

Rough sex, vanilla sex, hand and finger kink, enthusiastic cunnilingus, public use and gangbangs, held down, biting/scratching, bittersweet sex, noncon, dubcon, accidental stimulation, heat cycles, face-fucking, extremely emotionally charged sex, spanking, casual D/s, first times, humour and awkwardness, aftercare, femsub, fingerfucking, shoving fingers into mouths, public and semi-public sex, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, pining while fucking, sex pollen inc. only one partner doused, affectionate use of the word "slut/whore" (like "you’re a good little slut"), showing trust through sex acts, voyeurism, masturbation (solo, mutual and guided), frottage, clothed and semi-clothed sex, handholding while fucking, being bent over furniture

I’m okay with either come/cum as spelling and with pussy, cunt or vagina as terminology for vaginas.

Other kinks that work with my prompts are fine! I haven’t listed everything I like. My DNW list captures all the things I know I don’t like, but basically, for everything else: try me.

DNWs

- Anyone under 18 involved in explicit sex
- Incest
- Noncon involving trans characters (*exception to this DNW in The Batman, see that section)
- Scat, watersports, emetophilia, belly kinks (inc. feeding & inflation), fisting, oviposition, tentacles, sounding, rimming
- CSA in anything more than mentions (other kinds of CA are fine to be featured)
- The phrase “to the hilt”
- Mpreg
- Readerfic

The Mummy

>>> Beni Gabor - /M, /M/M, /M/F, /F, /Many

Opting In:
- Crossovers (see below)
- Rule 63 (ditto)
- Selfcest

I rewatched the Mummy recently and became obsessed with this little weasel of a man. Now I want to watch him suffer :D I love that he is a cowardly, lying, fickle, petty ratfucker, who makes decisions based only off what will save his own skin. He’s needlessly selfish too—in the opening of the movie, when he closes the door on Rick even though there’s plenty of time?! Oh I love him. And look, if all his terribleness wasn’t enough to charm me, the moment when he’s way, way too close to Bernard Burns in the hotel room, and takes way too much pleasure in his cruelty-by-proxy (where Imhotep is the proxy) had me head over heels.

Any period is fine—pre-canon, during canon, or if you want to AU!Beni lives, post-canon. Or, ghost/possessing someone/resurrected etc. etc. This canon is just full of ways to bring him back, if you wanna.

If smutty, I’m happy with any level of consent. For noncon—both with him being non conned (he seems like a prime target!) or him bad-touching other people he happens to have power over. Or dub con, where he uses sex (especially his mouth :D) to get out of tricky situations. Consensual is also more than welcome, in whatever capacity you see fit. Equally, there need be no smut!

For this request in particular, I’d like to note that the shippiness doesn’t need to be too explicit. General intensity also counts in my book!! And pining/yearning/whatever else is wonderful, but I’m not toooo interesting in anything too fluffy or domestic for him. Although, you never know, you may sell me on it!

Crossover Info: I think he’s a prime candidate for crossing over into other canons! Feel free to cross him into any canon I’ve ever request (check my DW tags) or written for (my AO3 is here), or anything you might think I’m interested in! If it’s a short canon (<10 hours or <500 pages), I’m happy to get into it (though it may delay my comment somewhat) or I can read canon blind. I honestly don’t mind, I just am obsessed with Beni right now so will take him in any form.

If you want him to have always been in that canon, I’m psyched, but I could also see him being plopped into the canon because of ~reasons and now having to worm himself out of whatever situation he finds himself in.

Here are some ideas for canons that might suit his appearance, but again, feel free to colour outside those lines: Star Wars Sequels (this one I really can imagine well), Blindsight by Peter Watts, DC/DCEU (especially The Batman), Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, Hex, Archer and Succession (okay this one I don’t see as vividly, but imagine this little worm trying to make his way up the corporate ladder?!)

Rule 63: Feel free to genderswap Beni! Or, genderswap anyone else in his canon (or other canons if crossing over), even. I prefer R63 character’s names to stay the same as long as it isn’t too incongruous (Beni, Ardeth, Evie & Rick are great to stay as-is, but maybe Jonathon’s could change?). YMMV on what counts as incongruous but I’m happy to trust your judgement and it’s not a big deal to me anyway, just a slight preference.

I prefer Always a 63 or Temporarily a 63, but trans head canons are welcome, as long as it isn’t issuefic (i.e. I would rather the character’s transness be a given and not the main point of the story). Non-binary swaps are also welcome.

Possible Prompts, but these are just ideas—go wild! And some of this is a repeat of the above, but:
- Beni survives the end of the film and gets to play in The Mummy Returns!
- Beni always knew how to get out of scrapes, even back in his French Legionnaire days
- Torture!! As the torturer or the tortured, or aftermath of torture
- His mouth gets him out of a lot of trouble, and sometimes that includes blow jobs :D
- He will do just about anything to keep hold of his scraps of power
- Someone commands to take care of someone who is wounded, though he reluctant
- He gets hurt and needs to find someone to help him
- Drunken shenanigans and bad wagers at cards
- Punishments that fit his crimes (in a sexy way or a terrible way, either is v welcome!)
- Reluctant affection and camaraderie
- Sex pollen, truth serums, forced proximity, all those good good tropes
- Being used as a conduit for someone who is pining for someone else
- Unexpected tenderness during rough, angry sex
- Bodysharing or bodyswaps

The Batman

>>> Edward Nashton - /M, /M/M, /M/F, /F

Opting In:
- Crossovers (see below)
- Rule 63 (ditto)
- Selfcest

Request-Specific DNWs:
Transwoman!Eddie (more below!)

I have always been a huge Riddler stan, through thick and thin, no matter what the iteration. And this particular iteration of the Riddler did not disappoint! I love Paul Dano anyway and he was perfect as the Riddler. He’s just as pathetic as comics Riddler and yet with a much more vicious—but also somehow more ridiculous—slant. His reaction when Batman isn’t on board with his plans near the end? Ugh, THE BEST. He’s terrible terrible awful bad, and he should suffer :D Wouldn’t he be so pretty suffering?!

Any time in canon is fine—pre-movie, during, or after, it all works nicely for me. You go for it. If you want to canon diverge, that’s also very much on the table :3

For smut, I’m happy with any level of consent! For noncon, him as the aggressor or victim are both excellent propositions. My only prompt is him as aggressor but please feel free to do awful things to him!! I’m also fine with dubcon and consensual! However you see it playing out, I’m gonna be along for that ride! Equally, there need be no smut!

As noted, I DNW him as a transwoman. If you would like to write him as a transman, though, I’m totally up for that! If you decide to write noncon with him as a transman, my "no trans characters in noncon" can be disregarded if he is the aggressor—only if he is the aggressor, though, not as the victim.

Crossovers: Crossing him back in the DC Comics-verse could be fun?! Either to replace comics!Riddler, or maybe even running into his comics counterpart (selfcest, you say?). You could also get him into any of the rest of the DCEU. I will say I haven’t consumed Gotham or the Justice League movie, but I’m up to date on the rest, so go for it.

Or crossing him into any other canon I’ve ever written or requested. ^_^ I don’t have too many thoughts about how this could be done, since I think he’s pretty easy to cross over, but I would slightly prefer it, I think, if he had always been in that world, rather than being dropped into it. I like him having time to scheme :3

Also, not explicitly a crossover, but bringing any DC Comics characters into The Batman is more than welcome! There’s so many great characters and I’d love to see any of them here.

Rule 63: I’m happy for Eddie to be Rule 63’d! Equally, making any character into a man who wasn’t before could be great fun! Sly Catwoman?! This is also true for any characters in crossovers :D Feel free to R63 only half a ship, or all parts of it, or whatever suits you, basically. I’m here for all of it!

I have a slight preference for names remaining the same in R63 situations, unless it’s really incongruous (up to your judgement!). Monikers/alter-ego names should remain the same other than subbing "woman" for "man" or whatever (i.e. The Riddler remains the Riddler, Penguin remains Penguin, etc., no matter the gender, but Catwoman can be Catman). You can also not change them in the slightest (male Catwoman is fine by me!) if you so choose. …man, I hope this section is clear, I’ve re-written it a bunch and still think it’s about as clear as mud. If still confusing, please lemme know through a mod >_<

NB R63s are also welcome for any character!

Possible Prompts, but these are just ideas—go wild! And some of this is a repeat of the above, but:
- He likes to play with his food, before he kills
- Arkham Asylum is a lot of things, but it is never lonely
- Maybe a Hannibal Lecter/Clarice-style relationship with a hero?!
- Truth serums, or Crane-like psychological drugs, any kind of mind control etc.
- He gets a hero under his power
- Someone catches the Riddler before Batman, and enacts vengeance
- Or someone catches the Riddler before Batman and wants to express admiration (in whatever twisted way)
- Badtouch/threatening touches
- Treating his victims like a lover (whether sexual or not in that moment)
- Noncon where he’s convinced its consensual
- Rough sex to stave off other violent urges
- Torture :D
- Heat or A/B/O dynamics
- Villain team-ups!

Battlestar Galactica

>>> Felix Gaeta - /M, /M/M, /M/O, /O, /O/O

Opting In:
- Crossovers (see below)
- Selfcest
- F/F if Rule 63’d
- Rule 63 for F characters becoming M or NB

I’ve been rewatching this recently and holy fuck, I forgot how much I love Gaeta off the bat. And then the New Caprica arc comes along, and I’m left clutching my heart. My only non-asshole in these requests, I love that Gaeta at the beginning, with his naivety and optimism and hero-worship, and I love Gaeta at the end, jaded and suffering and scrambling. And look, he can still be a snarky little git when he wants ^_^ He’s just wonderful in all forms, and however you wanna play him, you go for it. But I do particular love him when he’s under tremendous stress <3

Any period during or pre-canon is good! If you want to AU/canon diverge the end of BSG to be able to do stuff post-canon, that’s also good with me. I have no particular feelings towards the finale and am alright with whatever direction you go. Diverging other places are cool too—even if you want to wash him out of the military, for instance, I’m along for the ride. Also, if you want to AU where he or anyone else is a cylon where they aren’t in the show, go for it!! I have included this as a prompt below also.

For smut, any level of consent is fine, although I do prefer a little more dubcon than brutal noncon for him. But, smut is not necessary!

Also, I am always up for ships where one person dies, but for this canon in particular, where so many die and there’s so much potential for death, I wanted to call that out! His lover or he dying during the fic or after is cool with me!

Crossovers: Okay, so imagine Gaeta/Sarasti?! But in general, crossing him into any canon I have ever requested or written is absolutely awesome! Or, any canon if you don’t mind me reading canon blind (or being a bit delayed while I consume the canon, if it’s under 10 hours or 500 pages).

Here’s a list of some candidates, some likelier than others: Star Wars, Blindsight by Peter Watts, Galaxy Quest, any Philip K. Dick book, Alien, Stowaway, any Xuya Universe books by Aliette de Bodard, The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (OT3?!), Vampire Chronicles, The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, Succession. Most of these are sci-fi but it isn’t necessary to keep him in space if you don’t wanna! Gaeta in fantasyland, historical or contemporary settings are good with me too, and I have included a couple of suggestions in that direction.

But anywhere you want to take him, feel free! Or if you want to bring characters in to BSG! Crossing over in either direction is fine, as is "different canon but still cylon threat", or anything like that.

Rule 63: If you’re Rule 63ing Gaeta, I’m open to F/F. Or feel free to Rule 63 any other BSG (or crossover) character into M to make it work as M/M. I am not interested in M/F for this character though. M/NB or NB/NB is great though!

I’m great with anything—"Always a 63", "Temporarily a 63" or trans, whatever you’d like to do. This goes for Gaeta, for other BSG characters, or for any crossover characters.

For names, I prefer characters retained their own except where it is particular egregious (I trust your judgement!). Any name changes should stick fairly close to the canon name if possibly, if you do want to change them (I.e. Laura could be Loren or Lorn). Call signs should always remain the same!

Possible Prompts, but these are just ideas—go wild! And some of this is a repeat of the above, but:
- Gaeta is a cylon!! Or someone Gaeta loves/pines for/lusts for turns out to be a cylon
- Gaius isn’t the only one with someone in his head
- Torture :D + torture recovery and aftermaths
- Gaeta left someone back on Caprica—an opportunity for epistolary?! Or intense shore leaves
- Gaeta left someone back on Caprica, and now the attacks means they are dead
- He might not be able to tell them why, but Gaeta needs comfort on New Caprica
- Stolen moments between shifts
- Early seasons Gaeta has a lot of admiration for people he looks up to ;)
- Sex pollen!! In any form or way, like sex pollen on a planet, in close quarters, choosing between truth serum or sex pollen etc.
- Bodysharing or body swaps
- Accidental baby acquisition
- A sudden tender moment in an otherwise non-romantic/sexual interaction
- Stranded somewhere with someone, or any kind of forced proximity due to a ship malfunction