Chocolate Box 2019 Letter
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chocolateboxcomm, a delightfully low-pressure, 300-word minimum exchange.)
Dear Writer,
I'm delighted we matched, and I'm so excited that you'll be writing something for me! I'll begin with a disclaimer: except for the really hard nos, I don't want you to feel even remotely obligated to follow anything this page lays out. These are intended as thoughts to maybe spark something for you; if you don't need that, or if your inspiration is taking you elsewhere, please, follow it. I want to read whatever you want to write, so don't feel any need to redirect.
With that in mind, here are some very general things I'm into, that you may do with as you see fit: found families, banter, digging into characters in believable ways, assholes who like each other a lot, any kind of AU you can imagine (superheroes, office jobs, pirates, Harry Potter, a world with daemons, the universe of any fandom I'm into, etc. etc.), accidental domesticity, casual intimacy, fake dating, secret dating, polyamory was the answer all along assholes, characters relearning each other, a focus on choice, lots more.
As for the things I'm not into: ship/character bashing, graphic depictions of sexual assault, pregnancy/child-rearing focus if not a part of canon. If you feel like writing smut, kinks that aren't for me include: bestiality, bodily fluids, daddy/mommy kink, A/B/O, and dub/noncon.
Now, onto the fandom-specific thoughts:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cordelia/Buffy
I love so much about both of these characters, together and separately; I love that Cordelia has had some of her most quietly revealing moments with Buffy; I love the idea of them reconnecting -- what that would look like, how they've both changed and how they haven't, the prospect of relearning someone and finding things you might not have expected. I'm into things such as: them being roommates (because Reasons); Buffy spending time in L.A. and what it means to be allies again; lots and lots of banter; two girls who genuinely want to save the world and also want to look cute doing it; even any kind of AU, from a wildly different universe to something more like canon divergence, where perhaps they went to college together or something. Give me some back-and-forth and I'll be happy, honestly.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Sabrina/Prudence
So I wasn't really vibing any ships most of the way through, and then I reached episode 7, and suddenly I could not get the notion of Sabrina/Prudence out of my brain. I mean, I love the fact that we're just supposed to accept Prudence's willingness to fulfill all of Sabrina's requests, virtually without exception -- on the day Sabrina's supposed to be fulfilling her every whim, or whatever, Prudence instead agrees to...go attend normal human school with her? Indulges all of her attempts to prove the whole tradition's messed up and also the deck's been stacked? Even though she doesn't believe any of it? I would love anything that touches on the bizarre, complicated nature of their dynamic, or anything that involves Prudence having to attend school with Sabrina again (or exist around mortals for literally any reason), or anything about their mutual understanding that nobody else seems to grasp, perhaps especially not Sabrina, or perhaps a Hogwarts-style AU, or a different take on magic AU, or some absurd fake dating scheme. Their relationship is so wild! I would love to investigate more in any form!
Critical Role
Beau/Jester, Caleb/Jester, Caleb/Fjord
Beau/Jester: As if I didn't already feel enough fondness about them, that scene from episode 46 -- the hug from behind! The "love you, Jes"! Beau's earnest guilt/devastation re: (accidentally) abandoning "especially" Jester! -- leveled me up to a thousand here. Beau, who's still trying to figure out How To Be A Person, but will make every earnest effort she can to tell Jester she cares and she'd never leave her on purpose (enough to say she loves her! Wild). But that's really neither here nor there: point is, there'd be a million things I'd love to be explored here, from Beau going out of her way to keep Jester safe (perhaps to the point of absurdity), to the incidental domesticity that comes from perpetually sharing someone else's space, to the secrets they've shared, to pining, to revelations, to other things entirely.
Caleb/Jester: I find everything about them so incredibly endearing -- Jester pestering him, Jester leaving inappropriate drawings in his books, Jester leaning over him while he's reading/working/studying and asking questions, Caleb not (especially at the beginning) knowing exactly how to deal with her. Both of them sort of searching for things in each other: Caleb doubting how okay she actually is, Jester wishing she knew how to make him less sad. (Laura including "Put the Fire Out" on Jester's playlist in honor of Caleb really got me.) Honestly, whatever you want to do with them is good with me; maybe a light interlude -- an effort to make Caleb smile, Jester somehow roping Caleb into her shenanigans, whatever -- or something that cuts a little more sharply into two characters with very different goals and very different approaches to the world seeing something in each other, maybe something recognizable, etc. etc.
Caleb/Fjord: I don't have anything super specific in mind for them, but one of the things I enjoy about them is the combination of this mutual understanding and respect they have for each other (which doesn't diminish Caleb's perpetual suspicion re: Fjord's goals) and also the fact that as you're sitting there watching them, you're like, So they could probably end up destroying the world. Truthfully, I am in for any and/or all of these things -- whether you want to throw in some late-night bonding or a blood sacrifice, or even an AU where they somehow ended up studying magic together, or maybe them talking to each other about their varying approaches to magic now, I'm in for anything.
Dragon Age
Leliana/Josephine
Listen, they're girlfriends, I don't care what lies BioWare wants to tell me, or how their romanceability makes that complicated. Ahem, anyway, some things I'm into include: their backstory, including Leliana dragging (a not-totally-unwilling) Josephine into her shenanigans; Josephine searching for the pieces of a younger Leliana that Inquisition Leliana keeps tucked away (and perhaps finding them only to immediately regret it, e.g. her undergarments ending up strung up on a flagpole or whatever); Leliana trusting Josephine with parts of herself she doesn't trust with most other people; the quiet intimacy of a relationship that has stretched through as many years as theirs has; how seamlessly they're able to work in concert, after all this time and considering their own experiences (even if they sometimes take opposite stances on approaches/moral concerns, which is also interesting!); Leliana's protectiveness (and sometimes Josephine's oh my god please chill-ness); an established relationship -- or, alternatively, one that has been quietly cultivated and tended to for many years, perhaps without either of them realizing it; pining; what it means to love someone in a time of war; and lots and lots of other things.
The Bright Sessions
Mark/Joan
OH BOY. There is so much I want to explore about them, and I know the show hit on a lot of it, in terms of: what does it mean to have a person back who you've spent years -- broken a multitude of laws and definitely exercised questionable morals -- in pursuit of? What does it mean to relearn someone, what does it mean to relearn yourself? When all you are is single-minded purpose, what does the aftermath of accomplishing it actually look like? I really love the complicated nature of the Mark/Joan relationship: how much they care about each other, but how much that is caught up in so many other things -- betrayal, overprotectiveness, the things they have done to be where they are. How messy and complicated any step toward romantic entanglement is likely to be. (Please, make it as messy or confusing as you would like.) On the other hand, if you wanted to go AU with this, feel free -- is Joan an atypical? Do they go to Hogwarts? Is there no magic at all, but Joan shows up for some of the performances Mark plays with his band? What I'm getting at is: follow your heart. (As an add-on, Joan and Mark's secret notebook is one of my favorite pieces of content the show produced.)
Wynonna Earp
Waverly/Wynonna
Heart of the show, heart of my heart, I would die for both of them and how much they care about each other. Whether that means casual intimacy or domesticity or fighting demons side-by-side, whether that means following Wynonna as she goes to the ends of the earth to get Waverly back or the two of them struggling with a faulty garbage disposal together. Whether it's Wynonna having Complicated Feelings about Waverly's romantic involvement, or the weird feeling that happens when you return to find your sister suddenly, uh, hot?, or what the world might look like for them post-revenants. Or an AU entirely: post-apocalyptic or one of them's the slayer, or what happens if there might kind of be two heirs. Whether you want to tap into something light -- making stupid jokes together! -- or maybe engage with what it really means to build back such a complicated relationship, or play with your run-of-the-mill Evil Is Coming How Do We Save The World dynamics, I'm in. I just love them in every form.
chocolateboxcomm, a delightfully low-pressure, 300-word minimum exchange.)Dear Writer,
I'm delighted we matched, and I'm so excited that you'll be writing something for me! I'll begin with a disclaimer: except for the really hard nos, I don't want you to feel even remotely obligated to follow anything this page lays out. These are intended as thoughts to maybe spark something for you; if you don't need that, or if your inspiration is taking you elsewhere, please, follow it. I want to read whatever you want to write, so don't feel any need to redirect.
With that in mind, here are some very general things I'm into, that you may do with as you see fit: found families, banter, digging into characters in believable ways, assholes who like each other a lot, any kind of AU you can imagine (superheroes, office jobs, pirates, Harry Potter, a world with daemons, the universe of any fandom I'm into, etc. etc.), accidental domesticity, casual intimacy, fake dating, secret dating, polyamory was the answer all along assholes, characters relearning each other, a focus on choice, lots more.
As for the things I'm not into: ship/character bashing, graphic depictions of sexual assault, pregnancy/child-rearing focus if not a part of canon. If you feel like writing smut, kinks that aren't for me include: bestiality, bodily fluids, daddy/mommy kink, A/B/O, and dub/noncon.
Now, onto the fandom-specific thoughts:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cordelia/Buffy
I love so much about both of these characters, together and separately; I love that Cordelia has had some of her most quietly revealing moments with Buffy; I love the idea of them reconnecting -- what that would look like, how they've both changed and how they haven't, the prospect of relearning someone and finding things you might not have expected. I'm into things such as: them being roommates (because Reasons); Buffy spending time in L.A. and what it means to be allies again; lots and lots of banter; two girls who genuinely want to save the world and also want to look cute doing it; even any kind of AU, from a wildly different universe to something more like canon divergence, where perhaps they went to college together or something. Give me some back-and-forth and I'll be happy, honestly.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Sabrina/Prudence
So I wasn't really vibing any ships most of the way through, and then I reached episode 7, and suddenly I could not get the notion of Sabrina/Prudence out of my brain. I mean, I love the fact that we're just supposed to accept Prudence's willingness to fulfill all of Sabrina's requests, virtually without exception -- on the day Sabrina's supposed to be fulfilling her every whim, or whatever, Prudence instead agrees to...go attend normal human school with her? Indulges all of her attempts to prove the whole tradition's messed up and also the deck's been stacked? Even though she doesn't believe any of it? I would love anything that touches on the bizarre, complicated nature of their dynamic, or anything that involves Prudence having to attend school with Sabrina again (or exist around mortals for literally any reason), or anything about their mutual understanding that nobody else seems to grasp, perhaps especially not Sabrina, or perhaps a Hogwarts-style AU, or a different take on magic AU, or some absurd fake dating scheme. Their relationship is so wild! I would love to investigate more in any form!
Critical Role
Beau/Jester, Caleb/Jester, Caleb/Fjord
Beau/Jester: As if I didn't already feel enough fondness about them, that scene from episode 46 -- the hug from behind! The "love you, Jes"! Beau's earnest guilt/devastation re: (accidentally) abandoning "especially" Jester! -- leveled me up to a thousand here. Beau, who's still trying to figure out How To Be A Person, but will make every earnest effort she can to tell Jester she cares and she'd never leave her on purpose (enough to say she loves her! Wild). But that's really neither here nor there: point is, there'd be a million things I'd love to be explored here, from Beau going out of her way to keep Jester safe (perhaps to the point of absurdity), to the incidental domesticity that comes from perpetually sharing someone else's space, to the secrets they've shared, to pining, to revelations, to other things entirely.
Caleb/Jester: I find everything about them so incredibly endearing -- Jester pestering him, Jester leaving inappropriate drawings in his books, Jester leaning over him while he's reading/working/studying and asking questions, Caleb not (especially at the beginning) knowing exactly how to deal with her. Both of them sort of searching for things in each other: Caleb doubting how okay she actually is, Jester wishing she knew how to make him less sad. (Laura including "Put the Fire Out" on Jester's playlist in honor of Caleb really got me.) Honestly, whatever you want to do with them is good with me; maybe a light interlude -- an effort to make Caleb smile, Jester somehow roping Caleb into her shenanigans, whatever -- or something that cuts a little more sharply into two characters with very different goals and very different approaches to the world seeing something in each other, maybe something recognizable, etc. etc.
Caleb/Fjord: I don't have anything super specific in mind for them, but one of the things I enjoy about them is the combination of this mutual understanding and respect they have for each other (which doesn't diminish Caleb's perpetual suspicion re: Fjord's goals) and also the fact that as you're sitting there watching them, you're like, So they could probably end up destroying the world. Truthfully, I am in for any and/or all of these things -- whether you want to throw in some late-night bonding or a blood sacrifice, or even an AU where they somehow ended up studying magic together, or maybe them talking to each other about their varying approaches to magic now, I'm in for anything.
Dragon Age
Leliana/Josephine
Listen, they're girlfriends, I don't care what lies BioWare wants to tell me, or how their romanceability makes that complicated. Ahem, anyway, some things I'm into include: their backstory, including Leliana dragging (a not-totally-unwilling) Josephine into her shenanigans; Josephine searching for the pieces of a younger Leliana that Inquisition Leliana keeps tucked away (and perhaps finding them only to immediately regret it, e.g. her undergarments ending up strung up on a flagpole or whatever); Leliana trusting Josephine with parts of herself she doesn't trust with most other people; the quiet intimacy of a relationship that has stretched through as many years as theirs has; how seamlessly they're able to work in concert, after all this time and considering their own experiences (even if they sometimes take opposite stances on approaches/moral concerns, which is also interesting!); Leliana's protectiveness (and sometimes Josephine's oh my god please chill-ness); an established relationship -- or, alternatively, one that has been quietly cultivated and tended to for many years, perhaps without either of them realizing it; pining; what it means to love someone in a time of war; and lots and lots of other things.
The Bright Sessions
Mark/Joan
OH BOY. There is so much I want to explore about them, and I know the show hit on a lot of it, in terms of: what does it mean to have a person back who you've spent years -- broken a multitude of laws and definitely exercised questionable morals -- in pursuit of? What does it mean to relearn someone, what does it mean to relearn yourself? When all you are is single-minded purpose, what does the aftermath of accomplishing it actually look like? I really love the complicated nature of the Mark/Joan relationship: how much they care about each other, but how much that is caught up in so many other things -- betrayal, overprotectiveness, the things they have done to be where they are. How messy and complicated any step toward romantic entanglement is likely to be. (Please, make it as messy or confusing as you would like.) On the other hand, if you wanted to go AU with this, feel free -- is Joan an atypical? Do they go to Hogwarts? Is there no magic at all, but Joan shows up for some of the performances Mark plays with his band? What I'm getting at is: follow your heart. (As an add-on, Joan and Mark's secret notebook is one of my favorite pieces of content the show produced.)
Wynonna Earp
Waverly/Wynonna
Heart of the show, heart of my heart, I would die for both of them and how much they care about each other. Whether that means casual intimacy or domesticity or fighting demons side-by-side, whether that means following Wynonna as she goes to the ends of the earth to get Waverly back or the two of them struggling with a faulty garbage disposal together. Whether it's Wynonna having Complicated Feelings about Waverly's romantic involvement, or the weird feeling that happens when you return to find your sister suddenly, uh, hot?, or what the world might look like for them post-revenants. Or an AU entirely: post-apocalyptic or one of them's the slayer, or what happens if there might kind of be two heirs. Whether you want to tap into something light -- making stupid jokes together! -- or maybe engage with what it really means to build back such a complicated relationship, or play with your run-of-the-mill Evil Is Coming How Do We Save The World dynamics, I'm in. I just love them in every form.
