Dear Fic in a Box 2025
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impala_chickHooray for fic in a box!
Things I like:
•Angst! Darker themes, and characters that face their metaphorical, or literal, demons or don't always make the "right" choices, and then have to deal with those consequences. Ambiguous or open endings are great, as are happy endings.
•Characters being surprised or annoyed at themselves for catching feelings for another character(s), and then pining for a bit. Bonus points if the characters are already in a friends with benefits situation.
•Humor or Characters who try to stay upbeat even when things aren't going great. I also like crack treated seriously scenarios. Outlandish plots are great when the characters are actually trying to navigate them.
•Battle Couples/Working together during a mission/competent characters (competency kink!) and the people who love & respect them.
•Bachelor/ette parties, or the OTP/OT3 going to the wedding of another couple, or weddings/dates/proposals getting interrupted. Or characters meeting at a wedding? I just like wedding settings. Bonus points for found family being incorporated into the wedding or event.
•Getting dressed up for some kind of event or party, or characters "cleaning up well" when they don't normally get fancy. I love this scenario when it comes to undercover missions!
•Snowed in/Trapped together.
•Road Trips!
•OT3 ships with V formations, OT3 where the V configuration starts to shift and the three of them navigate that together, established couple inviting a third, poly scenarios.
•Enemies to lovers (or an antagonistic relationship that changes over time).
•Discovering or communicating with ghosts or demons & exploring haunted houses/places. Making a demon deal or a deal with a witch, or using some kind of dark magic and getting more than you bargained for. I also like when the main character(s) is turned into a demon/ghost/supernatural thing, temporarily or permanently. I'm on board with a dark story line or horror vibes. You could also borrow from SPN canon.
•Going on a mission to save other character(s).
•Body swap where the character(s) have to navigate a "day in the life" and realize there's a lot they didn't know about the other persons' duties/job/position.
Alternate Universes I like: "what if"/fork in the road canon divergence, alternate first meeting, Dystopia/Apocalypse, In Space!, Professional Sports, magical realism, or Pacific Rim.
Things I like in art:
-Close up details, like hands or hair blowing in the wind
-Wide open landscapes, with the subjects being sort of small
-AU drawings, like alternative costume designs or alternative professions
-Ink pen & pencil & b/w drawings
Things I like in vids:
-Crack and silly songs!
-AU scenarios
-Compilation vids, like all the times a character says another character's name, or all the time weapons are drawn, etc.
-Movie trailers.
-Angst vids with sad/ambiguous endings.
Do not Want:
Stoplight system during sex; Scat/emetophilia; Omegaverse AU; sexual content for characters under 16; Coffee Shop AU, Soulmate AU; Taylor swift songs/lyrics.
Smut Likes:
+Banter as foreplay.
+Bukkake, gangbangs, spitroasting, eiffel towers.
+Experienced character teaching inexperienced character about sex, or characters working on improving for their partner (aka the sex doesn't have to be amazing the first time)
+A character dealing with shame regarding sexual/kink desires but the other character eventually finding out how they feel and supporting them.
+Character development through sex.
+Dubcon Mind Control - maybe someone uses their powers of control for sex, or they find some kind of device that compels the other person to do things? Super dubcon is great, but I just don't want the characters flat out saying they don't want it/don't like it.
+Dirty talk and/or Verbal humiliation, even if the characters are just experimenting with it. It doesn't have to be super degrading, but use of the word 'slut' for example would be fine with me.
+Rough Sex, manhandling.
+Other flavors of dubcon, esp. aliens/magic/bad guys made them do it, ritual sex, fuck or die. I also like characters dealing with the awkward/tense aftermath.
+Object penetration, anal, & females pegging male characters.
+Any kind of oral fixation, rimming, cunnilingus, messy blowjobs, characters really loving either doing or receiving.
+Suit kink/all dressed up kink, where one character really digs the other characters' outfit(s) and they have sex mostly clothed. Maybe they get distracted from a mission, sneak away from a party, or they tumble into bed at a hotel after a wedding?
+Honor bondage, where a character tells the others not to move or tells them where to position their body. Or actual bondage, too. This works well with dom/sub play and dirty talk.
+Breath play, with hands or other things like corsets. I like this with dom/sub play.
+Omorashi esp. in a dom/sub play scenario.
+Weapons/Knife kink.
+Sex while covered in the blood of their enemies.
Feel free to mix and match prompts from above and below. Sometimes specific fandom prompts are helpful so I listed a few here.
Dune
Feyd/Paul, Feyd/Paul/Irulan
•Feyd-Rautha is so unhinged and I'd love something that explores that dark side of him, and maybe why he's like that. Maybe he gets hit with a truth serum or spell and has to talk about it with Paul/Irulan?
•Maybe an AU where Paul lets Paul live? Does he have to be kept a secret? Or is it known that he's been spared? Do the three of them form a public polycule?
•Or an AU where he and Paul meet earlier in film canon? What if Paul was at Feyd's birthday in secret/disguise?
•I'd love to see these characters show off their knack for politics and for winning over the masses, or their individual competencies.
•A fight out in the desert (or anywhere, really). Paul and Feyd are the perfect ship for the trope where someone pops a boner during a fight.
•I'd love to read Irulan's journal entries about them!
Masters of the Air
Tatty/Helen, Rosie/Croz, Buck/Bucky
Any mission reports, or psych evals after a mission, would fit in so nicely with this canon. Esp. when it comes to Croz after D-Day or the Bucks after being POWs. It would also be fascinating to me to read about one of the characters accidentally finding a report about someone else.
I love seeing John in situations :P Maybe some pre-canon fic with John learning how to fly with Buck and/or Curt? Pining at the Stalag? I love when John is very competent at some things but extremely oblivious when it comes to Buck's feelings, so exploring that would be great. Mutual pining is great. I prefer fic set pre-war or during the war. Would also love anything relating to John and Gale being sorta-stuck up flyboys, or being horny AF, or learning more about themselves/coming of age. Also, baseball AUs with John as a pro baseball player are A+. Bonus points if he's a 1940s pro-baseball player. Also I don't mind if you mention Marge in some way, however you think she fits in (or doesn't).
As for Rosie, he's always so cool and collected - how does he blow off steam or deal with his own trauma? I desperately want to know more about how he and Harry grew so close, too. How often does Rosie wait by Harry's bedside? Did any of the other guys raise their eyebrows at that, but Rosie made up some excuse about it? Do they steal moments to be sweet to each other? Post-canon, do they end up going to that jazz bar together? Harry being adulterous is fine with me, him discussing his marriage (to Jean) with Rosie is also fine with me. I'm actually interested in the drama of all that! Does being with a man not count as cheating?
Tatty and Helen needed more screen time, so I'd love to see some missing scenes or canon events form their POV. I'd also love to know how they met, maybe as recruits or when they got to England? Stealing private moments together away from the guys would be lovely. What do they get up to after the war? Maybe because Tatty's Dad is a military guy, they think they have to quit seeing each other? Maybe they figure out a way to make it work anyway?
Roswell New Mexico
Isobel/Rosa, Max/Liz/Kyle, Maria/Alex/Michael
•I love so much about the clone situation in s3 and all of the head games, so any play on that would be fun.
•I love things that happen in the mindscape, especially accidental mindscape sharing. Or more handprint shenanigans!
•I've watched the whole show so your take on a coda or continuation would be fun. Give me all the fix-its.
•Do they ever make it to Oasis?? I'd also love to read a fic where Michael and/or Isobel to go to Oasis, and Maria and Alex and/or Rosa are worried about them. Maybe they need a rescue?
•Liz getting interviewed at her home or in Roswell about her latest discovery, and the reporter noticing how much Kyle and Max care about her.
•I want to know more about Michael being the dictator's son/prince of oasis. Or more about Max as the savior.
•Fic taking place in the lost decade is great. Maybe some secret college rendezvous? An AU where Rosa doesn’t die and actually runs away?
•I want more wild west fic now! Whether that's in Liz's mind or just an AU.
•Also Space horror! Running from some scary aliens, getting trapped on a planet or a ship, space walking and nearly running out of oxygen, old injuries flaring up at the worst moment...
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Sam/Bucky, Bucky/Sam/Zemo
I just finished watching Thunderbolts (after sign ups closed)! So feel free to set your fic in/after Captain America: Brave New World or in/after Thunderbolts. Please don't leave them permanently divorced though! I want to know more about their fight, and maybe how they're navigating both leading two different teams.
More prompts:
•Sam does an interview about becoming Cap, and drops little inside jokes that Bucky absolutely catches onto.
•Bucky does an interview about the New Avengers, and makes it very obvious he's got a thing for Cap.
•The press things Bucky and Sam are feuding, but they're just playing pranks on each other and/or there is a misunderstanding.
•Sam and Bucky back on the boat, literally doing anything. Maybe a sleepover? Maybe Sam teaches Bucky how to fish? Maybe Bucky and Sam have to go on a water-based rescue mission?
•They find some cursed object or get hit with an aphrodisiac in Madripoor.
•Bucky still has issues to deal with when it comes to sex (premature ejaculation? can't get it up? or just relearning what he likes sexually), but Sam is patient.
•Zemo tries to play mind games and get in between them by hitting on/making out with Sam or Bucky, and the other one gets jealous as hell.
•Sam and Bucky go apartment-hunting. Or Ikea shopping, etc.
•Bucky getting pregnant is so intriguing to me - maybe as a result of Hydra experimentation?
•Congressman Bucky! I'd love to read the documents on his desk, or his emails, or any of his campaign materials.
KPop Demon Hunters
This movie was so much fun!! I'd love to know more about how the fandoms view each other. Conspiracy theories, DMs, message boards, etc. would be so interesting. I'm a big fan of origin stories, so what was it like when the girls first met/first moved in together? What does Bobby think is going on with them (surely he knows something is up)? What about an AU where Mira or Zoey is the one with a demon in her lineage?
A Few Good Men
This is one of my favorite movies, so I had to request it when I saw it was nominated :D I don't have any specific prompts here. I'd love to know how they celebrated after the case was over. Or maybe what they did after that assignment? Did they stay in a relationship long distance or did they end up reconnecting years down the road? I'd love to see them later on in their careers, maybe they run into each other in the courtroom again or one of them becomes the other's commander and they have to navigate all the tension from the past.
Challengers
Tashi/Art/Patrick
I love every flavor of two of them being together and pining for the one that got left out, or the three of them hooking up but not sure how to make it official, or living as a throuple. Here are some potential prompts.
•More tennis matches! Bonus points for Stanford Tashi era matches. •The Donaldsons throw a huge party - NYE? Birthday? Wedding reception? And Patrick crashes it. •The US Open 2019 - what's your take? Does Patrick make it or does he just go to support Art? •Tashi as Patrick's coach. I never get tired of that idea! •Tashi makes a deal with the devil/demon/witch to heal her injury. Patrick and/or Art find out. •A storm makes the power go out and they happen to be trapped together (perhaps in an elevator?).
NSFW: sweaty characters, sex on the court, Art kinking on being cucked or getting the play by play from Tashi after she has sex with Patrick or vice versa, spitroasting or Eiffel tower positions, double cream pies.
Doctor Odyssey
Avery/Tristan/Max
•The aesthetic-focused medical equipment makes no sense but it sure is beautiful. Maybe you can write some worldbuilding about why the ship's medical ward was designed that way? Did they hire a Doctor before Max who was eccentric and then he quit? Or did Max get any say with all of that stuff? Bonus points for Avery and/or Tristan making fun of him for his choices.
•I'd love for two of them to have to team up to rescue the third.
•What are Max's issues with polyamory? Did he try it in the past and get burned? I'd love a backstory there.
•I'd also like more domestic fic! Maybe Max and Tristan help Avery get settled at medical school, or all three of them go house-hunting. Or you could even give me the hospital birth scene that could have been.
Things I like:
•Angst! Darker themes, and characters that face their metaphorical, or literal, demons or don't always make the "right" choices, and then have to deal with those consequences. Ambiguous or open endings are great, as are happy endings.
•Characters being surprised or annoyed at themselves for catching feelings for another character(s), and then pining for a bit. Bonus points if the characters are already in a friends with benefits situation.
•Humor or Characters who try to stay upbeat even when things aren't going great. I also like crack treated seriously scenarios. Outlandish plots are great when the characters are actually trying to navigate them.
•Battle Couples/Working together during a mission/competent characters (competency kink!) and the people who love & respect them.
•Bachelor/ette parties, or the OTP/OT3 going to the wedding of another couple, or weddings/dates/proposals getting interrupted. Or characters meeting at a wedding? I just like wedding settings. Bonus points for found family being incorporated into the wedding or event.
•Getting dressed up for some kind of event or party, or characters "cleaning up well" when they don't normally get fancy. I love this scenario when it comes to undercover missions!
•Snowed in/Trapped together.
•Road Trips!
•OT3 ships with V formations, OT3 where the V configuration starts to shift and the three of them navigate that together, established couple inviting a third, poly scenarios.
•Enemies to lovers (or an antagonistic relationship that changes over time).
•Discovering or communicating with ghosts or demons & exploring haunted houses/places. Making a demon deal or a deal with a witch, or using some kind of dark magic and getting more than you bargained for. I also like when the main character(s) is turned into a demon/ghost/supernatural thing, temporarily or permanently. I'm on board with a dark story line or horror vibes. You could also borrow from SPN canon.
•Going on a mission to save other character(s).
•Body swap where the character(s) have to navigate a "day in the life" and realize there's a lot they didn't know about the other persons' duties/job/position.
Alternate Universes I like: "what if"/fork in the road canon divergence, alternate first meeting, Dystopia/Apocalypse, In Space!, Professional Sports, magical realism, or Pacific Rim.
Things I like in art:
-Close up details, like hands or hair blowing in the wind
-Wide open landscapes, with the subjects being sort of small
-AU drawings, like alternative costume designs or alternative professions
-Ink pen & pencil & b/w drawings
Things I like in vids:
-Crack and silly songs!
-AU scenarios
-Compilation vids, like all the times a character says another character's name, or all the time weapons are drawn, etc.
-Movie trailers.
-Angst vids with sad/ambiguous endings.
Do not Want:
Stoplight system during sex; Scat/emetophilia; Omegaverse AU; sexual content for characters under 16; Coffee Shop AU, Soulmate AU; Taylor swift songs/lyrics.
Smut Likes:
+Banter as foreplay.
+Bukkake, gangbangs, spitroasting, eiffel towers.
+Experienced character teaching inexperienced character about sex, or characters working on improving for their partner (aka the sex doesn't have to be amazing the first time)
+A character dealing with shame regarding sexual/kink desires but the other character eventually finding out how they feel and supporting them.
+Character development through sex.
+Dubcon Mind Control - maybe someone uses their powers of control for sex, or they find some kind of device that compels the other person to do things? Super dubcon is great, but I just don't want the characters flat out saying they don't want it/don't like it.
+Dirty talk and/or Verbal humiliation, even if the characters are just experimenting with it. It doesn't have to be super degrading, but use of the word 'slut' for example would be fine with me.
+Rough Sex, manhandling.
+Other flavors of dubcon, esp. aliens/magic/bad guys made them do it, ritual sex, fuck or die. I also like characters dealing with the awkward/tense aftermath.
+Object penetration, anal, & females pegging male characters.
+Any kind of oral fixation, rimming, cunnilingus, messy blowjobs, characters really loving either doing or receiving.
+Suit kink/all dressed up kink, where one character really digs the other characters' outfit(s) and they have sex mostly clothed. Maybe they get distracted from a mission, sneak away from a party, or they tumble into bed at a hotel after a wedding?
+Honor bondage, where a character tells the others not to move or tells them where to position their body. Or actual bondage, too. This works well with dom/sub play and dirty talk.
+Breath play, with hands or other things like corsets. I like this with dom/sub play.
+Omorashi esp. in a dom/sub play scenario.
+Weapons/Knife kink.
+Sex while covered in the blood of their enemies.
Feel free to mix and match prompts from above and below. Sometimes specific fandom prompts are helpful so I listed a few here.
Dune
Feyd/Paul, Feyd/Paul/Irulan
•Feyd-Rautha is so unhinged and I'd love something that explores that dark side of him, and maybe why he's like that. Maybe he gets hit with a truth serum or spell and has to talk about it with Paul/Irulan?
•Maybe an AU where Paul lets Paul live? Does he have to be kept a secret? Or is it known that he's been spared? Do the three of them form a public polycule?
•Or an AU where he and Paul meet earlier in film canon? What if Paul was at Feyd's birthday in secret/disguise?
•I'd love to see these characters show off their knack for politics and for winning over the masses, or their individual competencies.
•A fight out in the desert (or anywhere, really). Paul and Feyd are the perfect ship for the trope where someone pops a boner during a fight.
•I'd love to read Irulan's journal entries about them!
Masters of the Air
Tatty/Helen, Rosie/Croz, Buck/Bucky
Any mission reports, or psych evals after a mission, would fit in so nicely with this canon. Esp. when it comes to Croz after D-Day or the Bucks after being POWs. It would also be fascinating to me to read about one of the characters accidentally finding a report about someone else.
I love seeing John in situations :P Maybe some pre-canon fic with John learning how to fly with Buck and/or Curt? Pining at the Stalag? I love when John is very competent at some things but extremely oblivious when it comes to Buck's feelings, so exploring that would be great. Mutual pining is great. I prefer fic set pre-war or during the war. Would also love anything relating to John and Gale being sorta-stuck up flyboys, or being horny AF, or learning more about themselves/coming of age. Also, baseball AUs with John as a pro baseball player are A+. Bonus points if he's a 1940s pro-baseball player. Also I don't mind if you mention Marge in some way, however you think she fits in (or doesn't).
As for Rosie, he's always so cool and collected - how does he blow off steam or deal with his own trauma? I desperately want to know more about how he and Harry grew so close, too. How often does Rosie wait by Harry's bedside? Did any of the other guys raise their eyebrows at that, but Rosie made up some excuse about it? Do they steal moments to be sweet to each other? Post-canon, do they end up going to that jazz bar together? Harry being adulterous is fine with me, him discussing his marriage (to Jean) with Rosie is also fine with me. I'm actually interested in the drama of all that! Does being with a man not count as cheating?
Tatty and Helen needed more screen time, so I'd love to see some missing scenes or canon events form their POV. I'd also love to know how they met, maybe as recruits or when they got to England? Stealing private moments together away from the guys would be lovely. What do they get up to after the war? Maybe because Tatty's Dad is a military guy, they think they have to quit seeing each other? Maybe they figure out a way to make it work anyway?
Roswell New Mexico
Isobel/Rosa, Max/Liz/Kyle, Maria/Alex/Michael
•I love so much about the clone situation in s3 and all of the head games, so any play on that would be fun.
•I love things that happen in the mindscape, especially accidental mindscape sharing. Or more handprint shenanigans!
•I've watched the whole show so your take on a coda or continuation would be fun. Give me all the fix-its.
•Do they ever make it to Oasis?? I'd also love to read a fic where Michael and/or Isobel to go to Oasis, and Maria and Alex and/or Rosa are worried about them. Maybe they need a rescue?
•Liz getting interviewed at her home or in Roswell about her latest discovery, and the reporter noticing how much Kyle and Max care about her.
•I want to know more about Michael being the dictator's son/prince of oasis. Or more about Max as the savior.
•Fic taking place in the lost decade is great. Maybe some secret college rendezvous? An AU where Rosa doesn’t die and actually runs away?
•I want more wild west fic now! Whether that's in Liz's mind or just an AU.
•Also Space horror! Running from some scary aliens, getting trapped on a planet or a ship, space walking and nearly running out of oxygen, old injuries flaring up at the worst moment...
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Sam/Bucky, Bucky/Sam/Zemo
I just finished watching Thunderbolts (after sign ups closed)! So feel free to set your fic in/after Captain America: Brave New World or in/after Thunderbolts. Please don't leave them permanently divorced though! I want to know more about their fight, and maybe how they're navigating both leading two different teams.
More prompts:
•Sam does an interview about becoming Cap, and drops little inside jokes that Bucky absolutely catches onto.
•Bucky does an interview about the New Avengers, and makes it very obvious he's got a thing for Cap.
•The press things Bucky and Sam are feuding, but they're just playing pranks on each other and/or there is a misunderstanding.
•Sam and Bucky back on the boat, literally doing anything. Maybe a sleepover? Maybe Sam teaches Bucky how to fish? Maybe Bucky and Sam have to go on a water-based rescue mission?
•They find some cursed object or get hit with an aphrodisiac in Madripoor.
•Bucky still has issues to deal with when it comes to sex (premature ejaculation? can't get it up? or just relearning what he likes sexually), but Sam is patient.
•Zemo tries to play mind games and get in between them by hitting on/making out with Sam or Bucky, and the other one gets jealous as hell.
•Sam and Bucky go apartment-hunting. Or Ikea shopping, etc.
•Bucky getting pregnant is so intriguing to me - maybe as a result of Hydra experimentation?
•Congressman Bucky! I'd love to read the documents on his desk, or his emails, or any of his campaign materials.
KPop Demon Hunters
This movie was so much fun!! I'd love to know more about how the fandoms view each other. Conspiracy theories, DMs, message boards, etc. would be so interesting. I'm a big fan of origin stories, so what was it like when the girls first met/first moved in together? What does Bobby think is going on with them (surely he knows something is up)? What about an AU where Mira or Zoey is the one with a demon in her lineage?
A Few Good Men
This is one of my favorite movies, so I had to request it when I saw it was nominated :D I don't have any specific prompts here. I'd love to know how they celebrated after the case was over. Or maybe what they did after that assignment? Did they stay in a relationship long distance or did they end up reconnecting years down the road? I'd love to see them later on in their careers, maybe they run into each other in the courtroom again or one of them becomes the other's commander and they have to navigate all the tension from the past.
Challengers
Tashi/Art/Patrick
I love every flavor of two of them being together and pining for the one that got left out, or the three of them hooking up but not sure how to make it official, or living as a throuple. Here are some potential prompts.
•More tennis matches! Bonus points for Stanford Tashi era matches. •The Donaldsons throw a huge party - NYE? Birthday? Wedding reception? And Patrick crashes it. •The US Open 2019 - what's your take? Does Patrick make it or does he just go to support Art? •Tashi as Patrick's coach. I never get tired of that idea! •Tashi makes a deal with the devil/demon/witch to heal her injury. Patrick and/or Art find out. •A storm makes the power go out and they happen to be trapped together (perhaps in an elevator?).
NSFW: sweaty characters, sex on the court, Art kinking on being cucked or getting the play by play from Tashi after she has sex with Patrick or vice versa, spitroasting or Eiffel tower positions, double cream pies.
Doctor Odyssey
Avery/Tristan/Max
•The aesthetic-focused medical equipment makes no sense but it sure is beautiful. Maybe you can write some worldbuilding about why the ship's medical ward was designed that way? Did they hire a Doctor before Max who was eccentric and then he quit? Or did Max get any say with all of that stuff? Bonus points for Avery and/or Tristan making fun of him for his choices.
•I'd love for two of them to have to team up to rescue the third.
•What are Max's issues with polyamory? Did he try it in the past and get burned? I'd love a backstory there.
•I'd also like more domestic fic! Maybe Max and Tristan help Avery get settled at medical school, or all three of them go house-hunting. Or you could even give me the hospital birth scene that could have been.