Dear Femslashex Creator

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Dear Creator,

I AM SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE! I AM SO HAPPY I AM HERE!

This is my first exchange in four years, and I want to assure you that does NOT mean pressure of any kind on you, dear creator. The pressure is on me, and your gift will be icing on a very determined cake. I think what will make me the happiest is knowing that you've enjoyed your time writing for me, regardless of the specifics of fandom or pairing or content. So, please take the following as helpful-only-as-far-as-it-is-helpful-to-you and take the leeway and freedom you need! That said, if what you need is more specific prompts, I hope to offer those as well. Also, my pronouns are they/them/she/her if you'd like to discuss me. 

General Likes: 

• Domesticity: married life, chaos of raising kids, work/life balance, the real work of staying together and working on trauma, mutual long-term healing
• Shared Space Tropes: fake relationship turns real, snowed in, forced to share a hotel room/bed, hetero double date fails, source of irritation becomes source of desire, 
• Darker Themes: body horror, wound play (inflicted or re-opened), exploration of pain (inflicted or tested)
• AUs: character meets x instead of y, y never existed, character lives/escapes, characters die but meet on another plane of existence, 10 years after canon, pre-canon (with no strong feelings of if this would end up breaking canon itself)
• Honesty: frank, truthful depictions of physical and mental disabilities, not seeing situations or memories with rose-colored glasses (if character x was maligned or hurt by character y, that shouldn't be ignored, unless working in an AU)

General Dislikes (with canon-specific exceptions noted below): 

• Rape or detailed reference to rape
• Dead children
• Explicit violence to children, especially sexualized violence
• Use of fanon f/f to bash canonical partners 

Specific Requests:

If there is a fandom listed you aren't familiar with but want to be, I included a bullet point or two on guides. However, after those bullet points, there WILL be spoilers, so tread with caution. 

Masters of Sex: Virginia Johnson/Lillian DePaul, Virginia Johnson/Libby Masters

• If you aren't crazy about my other requests, but don't know this fandom, Dr. DePaul's arc is 12 episodes ("Standard Deviation" to "Blackbird") and you can safely skip any scene without her or Virginia making the watch much shorter. If you aren't familiar with the show, you should know going in that there's a LOT of (almost exclusively) hetero sex, with content warnings for period-typical racism and sexism, and a heavy TW for cancer. Masters and Johnson are also based on real people, so if that's a major squick, this is one to skip.
• The show takes place in historical St. Louis, where I live now. On the one hand, I love a good reference to specific locations, but I'll also probably notice guestimation at specifics. Best to leave things vague if you aren't sure - I love vague! I also love fics that are completely outside of place or grounding in physical location. The first draft of my thesis was themed on it!
• For Lillian/Virginia:
  • Spoiler time. I'm happy with the canonical death being ignored, worked around, or embraced. I'd prefer to see Lillian and Virginia actually interacting, rather than mournful reminiscing, but flashbacks work great!
  • It clearly isn't too much of a stretch to assume that Virginia kinks on medical procedure, being observed, and Science TalkTM. Does Lillian twig to this? Does Virginia twig to Lillian's twigging? 
  • Shared space tropes are major wins for these two.
  • I'm happy with canonical Bill/Virginia being addressed, explained, or ignored.
• For Virginia/Libby:
  • I haven't actually finished the series (the plotline around Virginia's fictional daughter being so loudly criticized by her living children really bothered me) so specifics from the back half of season three won't be accessible by me. That said, I'm not opposed to being spoiled if the back half of season three is where you want to draw from! I'd prefer if you avoided details about Libby's or Virginia's children, though. 
  • What would happen if they had met under different circumstances, with or without Bill linking them?
  • How would they handle a double date gone awry, or some good old shared space tropes? Is Libby curious about the work Virginia does? Could she separate it from Bill?
  • I understand if a cheating-esque scenario doesn't jive with you! Feel free to AU away various partners.

Gone Girl (2014): Amy Elliot Dunne/Margo Dunne

• Another quick hit of an alternate request, though you more or less blink and you miss the interactions between these two. There's a little more in the novel, which is also a quick read if you're into crime and thrillers. If you're going in knowing little, you should probably know that this is some dark stuff, with graphic violence. 
• The movie was filmed in Cape Girardeau (where I went to school) and takes place in mostly-fictional areas of Missouri. I spent way too much time trying to actually triangulate the real location and ended up frustrated, but if you too happen to have a wealth of information about Missouri locations and it fits the story, I'd love to revisit some locales around the state.
• As far as prompts are concerned, most veer into AU territory. What if Amy met Margo instead of Nick? Would Margo fall for Cool Girl, and would Amy shift her tactics? Is Margo jealous of her brother, or does she dislike Amy so much she'd like to kiss her on the mouth? Post-canon, does Margo remain on the periphery of this sham relationship?  

Mean Girls (2004): Regina George/Janis Sarkisian

• One more quick hit! I'm not sure what exactly to warn for, not having watched the canon in many years, but I'm sure bullying is a factor, though I don't remember any interaction being explicitly violent or cruel. 
• That said, there probably is some degree of cruelty to the history between these characters. I'll leave it up to you whether that comes up here, but I'm not opposed to it being depicted. 
• For prompts, I was 18 when Mean Girls came out, and now I'm not. If you're comfortable with it, I'd love to see them meet again, on the street, or at a reunion. How have they changed? Did they reconnect or reconcile during college? Are they now 35, have exes or children, jobs... how does that change the ways they connect?
• Also down for pre-canon details of what went wrong in their friendship (relationship?) or canon-shifting details making a romantic relationship clear and addressing it head on

Hannibal (TV): Alana Bloom/Margot Verger, Miriam Lass/Freddie Lounds, Beverly Katz/Miriam Lass, Alana Bloom/Miriam Lass, Alana Bloom/Beverly Katz

• Very much NOT a quick hit, so hello, person who offered this fandom! (Or person with a lot of time to kill - I don't know your life.) Requested scenarios mostly pull from season 2 and 3. 
• Violence and dead babies might come up here a bit more reasonably than in my other requests, and I'm not opposed to canon-level references. I'd prefer not to dwell overlong on Mason and his particular brand of abuse, at least in specifics. 
• Trauma bonding and processing and picking at wounds (physical and emotional) are my playground here, so if that's yours too, dive on in! I'm also heavy into happy, safe endings and interludes. 
• For Alana/Margot:
  • Interested in how chronic pain and trauma colors their relationship
  • Spoiler time. Domesticity! Pregnant Alana! "Boring" moments at home together, shutting out the world, genderqueer or trans Margo (a bit of the novel mixed in) is welcome!
  • Post-finale, what happens to them? Do they follow news items of other "Hannibal" (movies) canon? Do they change how they move in the world?
• For prompts involving Miriam Lass:
  • "This could feasibly happen during the course of flashback canon"-esque situations are good! As are "This totally couldn't happen during the course of flashback canon" situations. 
  • Maybe instead of investigating Hannibal one-on-one so early in her career, Miriam got the chance to work alongside these women. Would relationships be antagonistic, partnerships, or meeting away from the context of the FBI?
  • I'm also into post-rescue hook-ups, connections, and happy endings (or not so happy endings)
  • Post-rescue I'm very interested, as with other Hannibal pairings, in disability, trauma, and mental illness
• For Alana/Beverly:
  • Pre-season 1/Season 1: A non-Hannibal investigation has them collaborating. They meet out of the FBI context. The meet inside of the FBI context, but don't want to mix work with pleasure and end up sneaking around. 
  • Spoiler time. Season 2-Onward: Because of their conflicting views on Will's potential innocence, work has to stay out of their interactions. Beverly isn't dead after all (I will embrace my suspension of disbelief!) and escapes with Alana pre-defenestration. Beverly isn't dead after all and emerges from hiding once Hannibal is in captivity (integration of Margot into this prompt would be fully optional, but I can picture the two of them cherishing Beverly together). Beverly IS dead and haunts Alana. 

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