Bite Sized Fandoms Exchange Dear Creator Letter

[waltztangocache]

Hello! If you're reading this, you're probably thinking of making me something for the Bite Sized Fandoms Exchange... so here's some more info to get you pointed in the right direction : ) Feel free also to do some research on my AO3, @waltztangocache. In any case, I'm very excitable and easy to please so just have fun with it.

GENERAL LIKES:

• Complicated, flawed characters. Characters who are selfish, characters who make hard decisions, characters who are difficult to be around.
• Complex, weighty relationships between characters (romantic or otherwise!)
• Interpersonal conflict and tension (and MESS)
• “Should this relationship tag be / or &?”
• You hitting my favorite character with a truck figuratively speaking
  • Or literally
• Pining (mutual or otherwise)
• Casual sex and/or relationships
  • Friends with benefits to lovers!!
• Kissy 💏
• Trans characters and genderqueer-ness
  • Trans male characters in explicit fic
    
• Bisexuality
• Horror, especially body horror
• Gore
• Humor
• Weird or uncommon AUs
  • Using another fandom listed below as a fusion AU
• Outside POV fics
  
• In-universe documents (including chatfic and social media aus)
  • In-universe RPF is very funny to me if you can find a spot where it makes sense
• Nontraditional formats and style experiments
• Digging into the themes of the source material
  

NOTE ON HORROR AND BODY HORROR:
Feel free to go as hard or not hard as you want. Don’t worry about things being too gross for me (in fact, you’re welcome to try!).

DNW: noncon/dubcon, piss and scat, incest, omegaverse, explicit sex with characters under 18 (referenced/fade to black is fine), pure fluff (especially for darker or more serious fandoms), non-canonical substance abuse, college or high school AUs, soulmate aus, character bashing, harry potter anything like literally don't mention it

Challengers (Movie 2024)

Solo: Tashi Donaldson (Challengers), Art Donaldson/Tashi Donaldson/Patrick Zweig (Challengers), Art Donaldson/Tashi Donaldson (Challengers)

I love this movie and all three of these characters (but I love Tashi the most). I like the complexity and toxicity of it all, I like how weighty it feels, I like that tennis is a metaphor, I like the eroticism and longing of it all.

Interests/prompts:

• Media, fame, and how Tashi, Art and Patrick interact with it at any point in the timeline
  
  • Differences in how famous they are? Art being the biggest name of the three, Patrick being mostly anonymous and able to go out in public more easily than the Donaldsons can, etc.
• Tashi's lost career/crushed dreams lol
  
• Jealousy between any of the three of them. Career success, perceived greater intimacy between the other pair, straight up money or looks?
• Artashi failmarriage. Show me the two of them not talking about it
• Post-canon established relationship. Like, what the hell does this look like a decade from now

Do Revenge (2022)

Eleanor Levetan/Drea Torres (Do Revenge)

Sick movie. Eleanor and Drea are awesome they were seriously doing some Hannibal shit to each other. I'd love truly anything post-canon, as long as they continue to be total sickos. I tagged with a / but I think they pose a great opportunity for something ambiguous, not together-together but not exactly friends. Chase your bliss.

Inception (2010)

Great movie. General note here that I love weird BS and I love organized crime vibes.

Arthur/Eames (Inception)

Love them. Gotta love the career criminal situationship. 

• FWB to lovers? "This is totally casual and not a big deal and we can keep it that way" <= not lying but incorrect
  • Would be fun also to dig into the real danger of having big attachments when you're a career criminal
• Something with them way way post-canon, like, irl present day or later. What is the vibe between them? Have they kept in contact or are they having some sort of reunion?
• Anything with a mutual pining that they're both keeping buried deep deep down because that's the kind of people they are

Arthur/Dom Cobb, Arthur & Dom Cobb (Inception)

Arthur does some crazy shit for Dom like holy cow. Makes a person wonder... why? Would love anything that digs into that devotion like seriously how the hell did we get here. I'm interested in where the end of the movie leaves them too - like, what happens when the guy you've been doing anything to help can suddenly retire from his life of crime? And from Dom's side, does he like have insane intense gratitude (or other complicated feelings) that he isn't sure how to deal with now that he's out? Or does he not? Do they even, like, talk? Again, feel free to take this as platonic or romantic or secret-third-thing as you want.

In the Modern World/Here’s the Thing/It’s Amazing to be Young MV Trilogy - Fontaines D.C.

Solo: Spider (Fontaines D.C. MV Trilogy), Martin/Spider (Fontaines D.C. MV Trilogy)

Spider is cool as fuck. Will take truly anything about her, her crazy scary girl gang, or her and Martin (tho she is definitely my focus lol!). Low on specific prompts just have fun with it.

IT (Movies - Muschietti)

Loved it circa 2019-2020 and am still not totally over it I won't lie. Mainly interested in adult era Losers vs 1980s. This is a great one for AUs - my interest is def more in the characters than the specifics of the plot.

Bill Denbrough & Mike Hanlon & Ben Hanscom & Eddie Kaspbrak & Beverly Marsh & Richie Tozier & Stanley Uris (IT)

I just love love. They all mean so much to each other! The power of friendship FR. Friend reunion post-canon could be fun? Or otherwise reflections on having an insanely close knit group of friends who you love.

Eddie Kaspbrak & Beverly Marsh (IT)

They have some interesting parallels, huh? Something here about gender performance. But also, I just think they should be friends.

Solo: Beverly Marsh (IT)

Bev is so interesting! Would love a post-canon fic about her figuring out her life after everything.

Solo: Eddie Kaspbrak (IT)

Again, interesting guy! Def would love something between the eras from the movies, like, Eddie as a young adult or whatever. Or post-Derry, if you want to un-kill him. I know AU-ing the movie so he lives is pretty typical, and I'm def into that but also would def be into not doing that and actually killing him for once. Dealer's choice lol.

Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier (IT)

Low on prompts but I do love them. Maybe a weird AU? Or maybe a fic about coming of age as a queer person in middle age? Again feel free to either kill or not kill Eddie as you see fit.

Merrily We Roll Along - Sondheim/Furth

Solo: Mary Flynn (MWRA - Sondheim/Furth), Solo: Franklin Shepard (MWRA - Sondheim/Furth), Mary Flynn/Franklin Shepard (MWRA - Sondheim/Furth), Mary Flynn & Franklin Shepard (MWRA - Sondheim/Furth), Mary Flynn & Charley Kringas (MWRA - Sondheim/Furth), Charley Kringas & Franklin Shepard (Merrily We Roll Along), Mary Flynn & Charley Kringas & Franklin Shepard (Merrily We Roll Along)

DEEPLY obsessed with this show and these three characters. Big fan of the tragedy of it all, big fan of their love for each other and how friendship-focused the show is. Mary is my fave i think she's soooooooo interesting and will truly take anything focused on her. All that said, here's a big list of prompts.

• When Charley said, "Jesus Mary, after all these years you're still in love with the guy?" ...That still is doing so much heavy lifting. I'd love to see some Charley POV on the whole Frank and Mary situation. How does he know about her feelings?
  
• Mary interacting with Charley and Frank separately after Frank and Charley's falling out. Are the two of them like even willing to talk about each other?
• ...Also, Mary talking to Charley after her own falling out with Frank >: )
• More about Mary and Charley's creative work
• Frank trying to fix things with Mary and Charley. Like, can he even do it?