Yuletide 2023 Creator Letter
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withthekeyiskingHello, I'm Q! This is my Creator Letter for the 2023 Yuletide Exchange. First, thank you for your interest! Whether you're my assigned giftor or thinking of making a treat, I appreciate you so very much :)
This letter has my general DNWs and Likes, and then I have individual sections for each of my fandom requests for this year's exchange (and I don't have a preference between any of them, so don't think if one's section is longer than the other that I want it more!). I hope my provided details will give you some inspiration! I really look forward to whatever y'all create, I know I'm gonna love it <3
GUIDE
DNWs
GENERAL LIKES
DARK LIKES
I'm a huge fan of darkfic, whether that's serious Dead Dove: Do Not Eat or whump or simple hurt/comfort (with a healthy dose of hurt XD). This can mean physical, mental, or sexual (absolutely a fan of noncon!). I also really enjoy the aftermath of these events, having characters deal with what's happened to them. Some more great things are:
SMUT LIKES
These really are non-exhaustive, as I’m down for basically everything other than scat! These also can be used with any level of consent (including the complete lack thereof XD) and make me super happy.
ALTERNTE UNIVERSE LIKES
I can get behind just about every AU, but my favorites are:
General AUs
SCARLET SPIDER
Tagged Character: Ben Reilly
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Ben Reilly, my dear darling blorbo. I hold him gently in my hands, I protect him from harm, I wreck him and tear him apart (you know, like you do with your favs 😌). Ben is just such a cool and damaged as hell person. He is filled with identity issues and insecurity and an almost desperate need to belong, to be a hero, to be in a position to save people. He has genius-level intelligence (being a clone of Peter Parker kind of ensures that) but his emotional state is often so unstable that that genius gets used for so many others' purposes. I love his back and forth relationships with Peter and Kaine, his fucked up bond with Miles Warren, and god honestly all the relationships he has with folks are so fun.
Ben is someone who has died more than anyone in the Marvel universe (literally—Death herself told him!) and none of those deaths were pleasant. Hell, 28 of them were him being literally tortured to death by his creator! Something I really love is that when Ben has his run as a villain in The Clone Conspiracy, his reasoning behind what he's doing is his intense terror about death; he did a lot of fucked up shit in TCC, but his reasoning was the desire to be able to stop death, to never let anyone else go through what he went through, and I just think that's Neat.
Anyway, I just seriously am obsessed with this dude and think he's been done dirty by Marvel over and over again and will take whatever I can from you, lovely creator!
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PRISON BREAK
Tagged Character: Michael Scofield
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
If I had to rank my favorite characters of all time, Michael Scofield would absolutely be Top 5, no doubt. He is one of the most brilliant, most empathetic, most calculating characters there is, and the fact that he's all of those things is part of what's so impressive—usually if you have a calculating hyper-genius, they're dismissive or struggle with understanding people, but Michael has the exact opposite problem. He is so tuned in to the suffering of the world that he can't turn it off, can't ever shut out the pain of others. It led to him becoming a rescuer, needing to save whomever he could, which then led to him getting himself imprisoned so he could save his brother (which led to one of the most brilliant escape plans there ever was). And to top it all off he's a straight up BAMF—he let a mobster cut off his toes without giving up the info the mobster wanted, and then went on to command said mobster and a bunch of other violent criminals in order to achieve his goals. Just so fucking awesome.
You're welcome to use any characters from the show with Michael, because I seriously love all the different dynamics Michael has with everyone around him. His relationship with his brother is so wonderfully codependent and just damn sweet, and it's an excellent contrast against all the anxiety and violence that comes from all the villains Michael works with. Abruzzi is just waiting for Michael to slip up so he gets what he wants from him, T-Bag makes absolutely no secret of how much he wants to fuck Michael (whether that's consensual or not), The General would've done anything to get Michael working for him, and then you have morally gray characters like Mahone who was So Awesome. He was just a great foil to Michael, they played off each other so damn well, and the moment of Michael telling him "I will win every time" gives me fucking chills. And Kellerman was such an interesting character!! A self-serving bastard who actually ended up helping out but is still totally fucked in the head. And then I have to throw in Jacob Ness too, because hot damn did season 5 have so many issues but his slight obsession with Michael and the way he used Michael was just super awesome. If you can't tell I'll simply adore anything involving Michael 😂
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BOURNE MOVIES
Tagged Characters: Aaron Cross, Eric Byer, Jason Bourne, Marta Shearing
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form
You can do any combination of these characters as long as Aaron Cross is in it! So all of them, just Aaron and Byer, just Aaron and Jason, etc, any combinations good as long as he's in it :)
I love The Bourne Legacy so fucking much and it is wild to me that I've only recently started requesting it for exchanges! The entire universe is awesome but I didn't click with the original trilogy in the same way I clicked with this sequel film. It is just the coolest fucking thing. Like, getting an outsider POV on the Bourne trilogy was awesome, and then you throw in the wonderful lead character of Aaron Cross and you've absolutely got me hooked.
Spies! Double crosses! Enhanced people! Manipulation! This film has it all, and all my love is attached to Aaron. This man has been manipulated and used at every single turn (by his army recruiter, by the people in charge of Outcome, by Eric Byer, list goes on) because of his mental deficiency, and that's *chef's kiss* and so painful. Aaron-as-Kenny was desperate to belong, to be safe, and that was twisted and abused until he was a loyal killing machine. But the extra interesting thing to me is that Aaron still asked so many questions! He was constantly arguing—with other agents, with the doctors, with everyone. Only person he didn't argue with was Eric (but that scene we see between them really is very emotionally charged...).
Anyway, this fandom has so few fanworks, even fewer that are solely about this fandom instead of a crossover (so many crossovers with other Jeremy Renner characters, lol). I'm dying for content! I want my boy Aaron so badly, in whatever form I can take him. Maybe that involves his fucke up connection to Eric Byer, and all those delicious power dynamics. Maybe it's with Marta, who made Aaron so soft and gave him a space to just breathe, becoming a warrior herself. Maybe we get a bit of Aaron & Bourne, a 'crossover' movie that totally should have happened!! Seriously, sign me up for anything with my boy.
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THE NIGHT MANAGER
Tagged Characters: Jonathan Pine, Richard Roper
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Do yourself a favor if you haven't already seen this show, and go watch it. It's on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Vudu, along with a couple other places to buy it, and is only 6 episodes. It is the best 6 hours you can spend, because when I tell you this show is genius, I mean it. The acting is off the charts, the characters are compelling, and the story is interesting as fuck. Who doesn't want to watch Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie go head to head? No one, and if you haven't seen it, you're missing out. I have rewatched it like 5 times.
The thing that really makes the series is the dynamic between Jonathan and Roper, which is sheer perfection. I was already predisposed to like it since I like both actors, but still my breath was taken away by it. By the levels and the secrecy and betrayal and genuine affection and respect buried amongst it all. Jonathan is with Roper to avenge someone he loved, but still he found himself falling for Roper's charms, at least a little bit. He might've hated himself for it, but it went both ways!! Roper saying "It's a rare thing, Jonathan Pine, for me to trust a person. But you were special. Knew it the first time I saw you" ripped my heart out because of how much he means it. Roper doesn't trust people, but Jonathan slid right in like he was a missing puzzle piece finally returning. Roper wanted to give everything to Jonathan, wanted him to be a goddamn emperor of Rome with him, even gave Jonathan a chance to join him for real when he knew Jonathan was betraying him!!
And nothing, nothing, will ever compare to the moment when Jonathan blew all of Roper's shit up, thoroughly destroying his empire and costing him billions of dollars, and Roper looked at him and smiled and said "Oh, you beauty." I'm sorry but, like, how can anyone stay sane after seeing that??? Jonathan destroyed everything and Roper just thought he was spectacular!!!! Even winks at him later when they're taking him away!!
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THE FOLLOWING
Tagged Characters: Ryan Hardy, Joe Carroll
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
What is it about the dynamic between a violent criminal and the person hunting them that has me in a chokehold? No idea, but this show gives me that in spades and I thank them for it! Holy fuck is this show a good time—so eerie, so fucked up, so well acted. I love the way they slowly reveal the history between the characters and the way it impacts the now, and shit they just portray obsession so damn well. All of the characters have it, good and bad—obviously Joe's followers are obsessed with him, and Joe with Ryan, but Ryan's equally obsessed, and Mike & all the rest become that way too. They're all such complicated, fun characters and I love this show to pieces.
And god the Joe/Ryan relationship! Is! Everything! These two have such gigantic divorced energy from the very first moment, which is wild to see portrayed while they're sitting across from each other in an interrogation cell 😂 As I said before these two are o b s e s s e d with each other, even if Ryan likes to pretend he's not as invested as Joe is. Watching their relationship develop over the course of the show from bitterness and self-loathing to severe attachment (and self-loathing lol) was fantastic. Ryan spending all of season 2 hunting Joe down despite everyone calling him crazy, and then oh my god can I even talk about season 3 without losing my shit? The fucked up bond between them reaches insane, amazing new heights. Ryan dreaming about them playing pool and Joe holding him and teaching him to kill I JUST CANNOT HANDLE THIS RATIONALLY. Then because apparently they didn't destroy me enough, they had to have Ryan hallucinating Joe and that is just...fuck am I ever obsessed.
I want to thank you for reading my Letter, and I hope you have a good time writing! I'm so looking forward to whatever you lovely folks come up with :) <3
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This letter has my general DNWs and Likes, and then I have individual sections for each of my fandom requests for this year's exchange (and I don't have a preference between any of them, so don't think if one's section is longer than the other that I want it more!). I hope my provided details will give you some inspiration! I really look forward to whatever y'all create, I know I'm gonna love it <3
GUIDE
- DNWs
- General Likes
- Dark Likes
- Smut Likes
- Alternate Universe Likes
- Scarlet Spider (Comics)
- Prison Break (TV)
- Bourne (Movies)
- The Night Manager (TV 2016)
- The Following (TV)
DNWs
- Genderbends (but trans welcome!)
- Scat
- Crackfic or Pure Fluff
- Reader Insert
- First Person POV
GENERAL LIKES
- Angst and Hurt/Comfort of all kinds
- Universe Travel
- Time Travel/Loop
- Role Reversal
- Rescue Missions
- Second Person POV (can be fun as long as it's not readerfic!)
- Trauma Recovery
- Touch-Starved Characters
- Rare Pairings
- Enemies to Lovers
- Trust Issues
- Power Dynamics & Imbalance
- Identity Porn
- Amnesia & Memory Alteration
- Fix-Its
- Missing Scenes
- Trapped Together
- Undercover
- Found Family & Deep Bonds Between Characters
- Drug Use
- Pre- and Post-Canon
- Alternate Universes (favorites listed below!)
- Outsider POV
- All Kinds of Endings
DARK LIKES
I'm a huge fan of darkfic, whether that's serious Dead Dove: Do Not Eat or whump or simple hurt/comfort (with a healthy dose of hurt XD). This can mean physical, mental, or sexual (absolutely a fan of noncon!). I also really enjoy the aftermath of these events, having characters deal with what's happened to them. Some more great things are:
- Manipulation (emotional, mental, etc.)
- Mind Control & Demon Possession & Hypnosis
- Codependency
- Trauma Exploration
- Gaslighting
- Brainwashing/Conditioning
- Worse-Its
- Kidnapping & Captivity
- War Prize
- Addiction and all the things that go with it
- Forced Pregnancy
- Droit Du Seigneur/The Lord’s Right
- Betrayal
- Sensory Deprivation
- Stockholm & Lima Syndrome
- Drugged Sex
- Auction
- Forced Consent
- Extreme Possessiveness
- Fuck or Die
- Torture (waterboarding, electrocution, etc)
- Ignored Safeword
- "Take me instead" situations
- Abuse
- Earn Your Keep
- and just about everything 😆
SMUT LIKES
These really are non-exhaustive, as I’m down for basically everything other than scat! These also can be used with any level of consent (including the complete lack thereof XD) and make me super happy.
- Weapon Play - Gunplay is definitely top of the list, but I love all kinds! If you can think it I guarantee I’ll like it
- Bondage - The regular kind for sure, along with Predicament Bondage and Honor Bondage
- Messy Blowjobs, Face-Fucking, Deepthroating, Face-Sitting
- Boot Worship - One character licking another’s shoes or kissing them....great great shit
- Fingers in Mouth. Tbh anything in mouth; oral fixation FTW! This includes Gags for sure
- Humiliation, Degradation, Objectification, Begging
- Biting - Neck, thighs, everywhere is good. Love bruises being left behind
- Breathplay/Choking - Whether by hand or belt or suffocation or whatever you like, it’s all damn good
- Overstimulation, Forced Orgasms, Orgasm Delay/Denial
- Manhandling/Strength Kink, Size Kink - It’s great when one partner is much larger/stronger than the other, and can really manhandle them around. Also great when one has a big dick and the other is loving it. Love one character being held down during sex or grabbed roughly
- Praise Kink, Loyalty Kink, Competence Kink
- Impact Play - Spanking, Belting, Whipping, Etc.
- Desk Sex, Wall Sex, Car Sex, Semi-Public Sex
- Non-Penetrative Sex - Thigh Fucking, Asscheek Fucking, Breast Fucking
- Glove Kink - Being fingered with gloves on, sucking on gloved fingers, descriptions of the gloves on skin, etc.
- Cock Warming, Glory Hole
- Somnophilia (especially the noncon variety)
- Tentacle Porn (both by creature and by plant), Oviposition, Bestiality (both monster & regular animals)
- Forced Feminization - A male character being put in lingerie or skirts or panties; being called things like “babygirl”; having their genitals referred to with a feminine slant (such as their asshole being called a pussy/boypussy, their cock being call a girlcock, their pecs called tits, etc.)
- Womb/Cervix Fucking (yea I know, physically impossible, idgaf it's sexy)
- Breeding Kink - Whether being bred is actually possible or not, I love one character really kinking on the idea, especially if they’re not on the receiving end
- Object Insertion/Regular Items Used in Sexual Ways - Ties used for bondage, something normal filling the role of a buttplug, etc.
- Sex Pollen & Heat/Rut Inducers - Whether only one party is drugged or both are
- Watersports, Omorashi
- Necrophilia - Read a fic where this was a main aspect and suddenly had a discovery about myself. Love how dark and terrible this is. Whether someone's fucking a dead body or near one or on top of one, I am game
- Rape Roleplay - Both violent and gentle
ALTERNTE UNIVERSE LIKES
I can get behind just about every AU, but my favorites are:
General AUs
- Royalty
- Pirate
- Criminal (mafia, assassin, thief, etc.)
- Angel/Demon
- Genetic Dom/Sub
- Bounty Hunter
- Teacher/Student
- Western
- Omegaverse
- High School/College
- Law Enforcement/Military
- Prison
- Single Parent
- Star Wars
- Hogwarts/Wizarding World
- Bender (ATLA)
- Pacific Rim
- Inception
- Supernatural (TV show)
- The Magicians
- Hunger Games
- Percy Jackson
- Star Trek (including Mirrorverse!)
- X-Men/Mutant
SCARLET SPIDER
Tagged Character: Ben Reilly
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Ben Reilly, my dear darling blorbo. I hold him gently in my hands, I protect him from harm, I wreck him and tear him apart (you know, like you do with your favs 😌). Ben is just such a cool and damaged as hell person. He is filled with identity issues and insecurity and an almost desperate need to belong, to be a hero, to be in a position to save people. He has genius-level intelligence (being a clone of Peter Parker kind of ensures that) but his emotional state is often so unstable that that genius gets used for so many others' purposes. I love his back and forth relationships with Peter and Kaine, his fucked up bond with Miles Warren, and god honestly all the relationships he has with folks are so fun.
Ben is someone who has died more than anyone in the Marvel universe (literally—Death herself told him!) and none of those deaths were pleasant. Hell, 28 of them were him being literally tortured to death by his creator! Something I really love is that when Ben has his run as a villain in The Clone Conspiracy, his reasoning behind what he's doing is his intense terror about death; he did a lot of fucked up shit in TCC, but his reasoning was the desire to be able to stop death, to never let anyone else go through what he went through, and I just think that's Neat.
Anyway, I just seriously am obsessed with this dude and think he's been done dirty by Marvel over and over again and will take whatever I can from you, lovely creator!
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PRISON BREAK
Tagged Character: Michael Scofield
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
If I had to rank my favorite characters of all time, Michael Scofield would absolutely be Top 5, no doubt. He is one of the most brilliant, most empathetic, most calculating characters there is, and the fact that he's all of those things is part of what's so impressive—usually if you have a calculating hyper-genius, they're dismissive or struggle with understanding people, but Michael has the exact opposite problem. He is so tuned in to the suffering of the world that he can't turn it off, can't ever shut out the pain of others. It led to him becoming a rescuer, needing to save whomever he could, which then led to him getting himself imprisoned so he could save his brother (which led to one of the most brilliant escape plans there ever was). And to top it all off he's a straight up BAMF—he let a mobster cut off his toes without giving up the info the mobster wanted, and then went on to command said mobster and a bunch of other violent criminals in order to achieve his goals. Just so fucking awesome.
You're welcome to use any characters from the show with Michael, because I seriously love all the different dynamics Michael has with everyone around him. His relationship with his brother is so wonderfully codependent and just damn sweet, and it's an excellent contrast against all the anxiety and violence that comes from all the villains Michael works with. Abruzzi is just waiting for Michael to slip up so he gets what he wants from him, T-Bag makes absolutely no secret of how much he wants to fuck Michael (whether that's consensual or not), The General would've done anything to get Michael working for him, and then you have morally gray characters like Mahone who was So Awesome. He was just a great foil to Michael, they played off each other so damn well, and the moment of Michael telling him "I will win every time" gives me fucking chills. And Kellerman was such an interesting character!! A self-serving bastard who actually ended up helping out but is still totally fucked in the head. And then I have to throw in Jacob Ness too, because hot damn did season 5 have so many issues but his slight obsession with Michael and the way he used Michael was just super awesome. If you can't tell I'll simply adore anything involving Michael 😂
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BOURNE MOVIES
Tagged Characters: Aaron Cross, Eric Byer, Jason Bourne, Marta Shearing
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form
You can do any combination of these characters as long as Aaron Cross is in it! So all of them, just Aaron and Byer, just Aaron and Jason, etc, any combinations good as long as he's in it :)
I love The Bourne Legacy so fucking much and it is wild to me that I've only recently started requesting it for exchanges! The entire universe is awesome but I didn't click with the original trilogy in the same way I clicked with this sequel film. It is just the coolest fucking thing. Like, getting an outsider POV on the Bourne trilogy was awesome, and then you throw in the wonderful lead character of Aaron Cross and you've absolutely got me hooked.
Spies! Double crosses! Enhanced people! Manipulation! This film has it all, and all my love is attached to Aaron. This man has been manipulated and used at every single turn (by his army recruiter, by the people in charge of Outcome, by Eric Byer, list goes on) because of his mental deficiency, and that's *chef's kiss* and so painful. Aaron-as-Kenny was desperate to belong, to be safe, and that was twisted and abused until he was a loyal killing machine. But the extra interesting thing to me is that Aaron still asked so many questions! He was constantly arguing—with other agents, with the doctors, with everyone. Only person he didn't argue with was Eric (but that scene we see between them really is very emotionally charged...).
Anyway, this fandom has so few fanworks, even fewer that are solely about this fandom instead of a crossover (so many crossovers with other Jeremy Renner characters, lol). I'm dying for content! I want my boy Aaron so badly, in whatever form I can take him. Maybe that involves his fucke up connection to Eric Byer, and all those delicious power dynamics. Maybe it's with Marta, who made Aaron so soft and gave him a space to just breathe, becoming a warrior herself. Maybe we get a bit of Aaron & Bourne, a 'crossover' movie that totally should have happened!! Seriously, sign me up for anything with my boy.
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THE NIGHT MANAGER
Tagged Characters: Jonathan Pine, Richard Roper
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
Do yourself a favor if you haven't already seen this show, and go watch it. It's on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Vudu, along with a couple other places to buy it, and is only 6 episodes. It is the best 6 hours you can spend, because when I tell you this show is genius, I mean it. The acting is off the charts, the characters are compelling, and the story is interesting as fuck. Who doesn't want to watch Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie go head to head? No one, and if you haven't seen it, you're missing out. I have rewatched it like 5 times.
The thing that really makes the series is the dynamic between Jonathan and Roper, which is sheer perfection. I was already predisposed to like it since I like both actors, but still my breath was taken away by it. By the levels and the secrecy and betrayal and genuine affection and respect buried amongst it all. Jonathan is with Roper to avenge someone he loved, but still he found himself falling for Roper's charms, at least a little bit. He might've hated himself for it, but it went both ways!! Roper saying "It's a rare thing, Jonathan Pine, for me to trust a person. But you were special. Knew it the first time I saw you" ripped my heart out because of how much he means it. Roper doesn't trust people, but Jonathan slid right in like he was a missing puzzle piece finally returning. Roper wanted to give everything to Jonathan, wanted him to be a goddamn emperor of Rome with him, even gave Jonathan a chance to join him for real when he knew Jonathan was betraying him!!
And nothing, nothing, will ever compare to the moment when Jonathan blew all of Roper's shit up, thoroughly destroying his empire and costing him billions of dollars, and Roper looked at him and smiled and said "Oh, you beauty." I'm sorry but, like, how can anyone stay sane after seeing that??? Jonathan destroyed everything and Roper just thought he was spectacular!!!! Even winks at him later when they're taking him away!!
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THE FOLLOWING
Tagged Characters: Ryan Hardy, Joe Carroll
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags
What is it about the dynamic between a violent criminal and the person hunting them that has me in a chokehold? No idea, but this show gives me that in spades and I thank them for it! Holy fuck is this show a good time—so eerie, so fucked up, so well acted. I love the way they slowly reveal the history between the characters and the way it impacts the now, and shit they just portray obsession so damn well. All of the characters have it, good and bad—obviously Joe's followers are obsessed with him, and Joe with Ryan, but Ryan's equally obsessed, and Mike & all the rest become that way too. They're all such complicated, fun characters and I love this show to pieces.
And god the Joe/Ryan relationship! Is! Everything! These two have such gigantic divorced energy from the very first moment, which is wild to see portrayed while they're sitting across from each other in an interrogation cell 😂 As I said before these two are o b s e s s e d with each other, even if Ryan likes to pretend he's not as invested as Joe is. Watching their relationship develop over the course of the show from bitterness and self-loathing to severe attachment (and self-loathing lol) was fantastic. Ryan spending all of season 2 hunting Joe down despite everyone calling him crazy, and then oh my god can I even talk about season 3 without losing my shit? The fucked up bond between them reaches insane, amazing new heights. Ryan dreaming about them playing pool and Joe holding him and teaching him to kill I JUST CANNOT HANDLE THIS RATIONALLY. Then because apparently they didn't destroy me enough, they had to have Ryan hallucinating Joe and that is just...fuck am I ever obsessed.
I want to thank you for reading my Letter, and I hope you have a good time writing! I'm so looking forward to whatever you lovely folks come up with :) <3
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