bezukhovs

Hello! I’m, widow & thanks for taking the time to read my letter. I like a wide range of storytelling formats and tropes including weird or experimental prose; epistolary fic; first, second and third person; canon divergence AU scenarios (including worst timelines, missing scenes, POV changes etc etc); future fic and outsider POVs. Basically, feel free to write whatever sparks inspiration for you, I’m very game. Nothing in this letter is in any order of preference.


General Likes:

• Acts of service
• Ambiguous relationships
• Angst
• Betrayal
• Blood/gore/body horror/wound care
• Body swap/body sharing
• Casual flirtation
• Codependency
• Domesticity
• Enemies to lovers
• Fever dreams/sick fic
• Firsts (meetings, kisses, times)
• Ghost stories
• Hauntings/possession
• Horror
• Mutual pining
• Mentorship
• Nonverbal communication
• Places that love you & want to consume you to express it
• Reuniting as very different people after a long time spent apart
• Right person, wrong time
• Rituals (intricate or otherwise)
• Solitude
• Vampires
• Unconventional intimacy
• Unhealthy devotion
• Unreliable narrators

Smut likes

• Heavy make outs/heavy petting/touching over clothes
• Begging
• Frottage
• Oral sex
• Edging
• Coming untouched
• Tentacles
• Power play - breath play, bondage

DNWs

• Parent/child incest or incest not requested
• Explicit underage (16 is ok, as are allusions to sex for younger characters)
• Noncon, except: consent given as a result of mind-altering substances (sex pollen, fuck-or-die, alcohol/drugs making someone consent when they normally wouldn't), dubcon and CNC are ok
• Bathroom kinks (Omo, scat, emeto)
• A/B/O
• Mundane AU's
• Current world politics
• Stories focused on pregnancy/POV character is pregnant (allusions & past pregnancy is fine)
• OC's as a focus
• Humiliation (especially during sex)
• Unrequited romantic relationships

Chihayafuru
Ayase Chihaya/Wakamiya Shinobu; Ayase Chihaya & Ooe Kanade

Things I like about this canon: Anachronisms; talent vs. hard work; physical distance highlighting emotional distance; rivalries; high school melodrama; the politics of niche sports; intricate rule systems; touching someone in public spaces vs private ones; legacies; living with disability; networks of friends; relationships evolving over time; passion projects; living with your mistakes; longing; fillial responsibilities

Anything else?: Chihaya is such a dynamo -- a driving force of passion and connection to everyone around her. I love when stories show her complexities, how she creates connections with those around her with her tenacity and straightforwardness.

Some general prompts for this canon: shrine visits, going for meals together, moving away from home/moving into shared apartment spaces, the rhythm of the year as dictated by the competitive karuta scene, the pomp and circumstance of the meijin/queen matches, private vs public lives of the meijin/queen and their challengers, how time brings people together and drives them apart. Feel free to go wild with in-universe AU's as well, I'm a big fan of "what-if's" with regards to this series - maybe something like Shinobu beating Chihaya in their fated Queen matchup or Chihaya quitting karuta "for good" and Kana reigniting her passion?


Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
Chousou & Itadori Yuuji; Chousou/Itadori Yuuji; Fushiguro Megumi/Itadori Yuuji; Fushiguro Megumi/Ryoumen Sukuna; Kugisaki Nobara/Zenin Maki; Okkotsu Yuuta/Orimoto Rika; Okkotsu Yuuta & Orimoto Rika

Things I like about this canon: Selfishness as survival mechanism; negative feelings nurturing greater strength; the loneliness inherent in great power; old families ready to gut each other for continued survival; ritual and tradition as both a trap and a trump card; consumption as an act of love; love as a curse; the consequences of compassion; body sharing with a spirit who: hates you, wants to eat you, is indifferent to you; moments of "awakening" through massive trauma; late-game power-ups; cycles of abuse; cursed techniques as reflections of a character; cannibalism (malevolent kitchen you will always be famous...!)

Anything else?: While I love the world of JJK, I always feel like the pace of the manga means that we miss seeing a lot of the quieter moments of the characters. I've always liked to think about what the sorcerers get up to when they're not out on missions (or, indeed, what downtime looks like when they are on missions!) The contrast between being gutsy teenagers and the things they're tasked with handling, the emotional and physical toll of their lives.

For ship specifics, I enjoy Chousou and Itadori's relationship for how bizarre it seems to outsiders. How quickly Chosou flips on Itadori in Shinuya, and how fiercely protective he is afterwards. I think the degree to which Itadori returns those feelings is the really juicy part of this relationship -- how far is he willing to go to placate, or is he secretly pleased to have such an intense connection with someone who would bleed and die for him, no questions asked...

Itadori and Fushiguro make up such a large part of the emotional bakbone of the story, and I like that Fushiguro's (and Itadori's, to some extent) lack of presence in certain parts of the narrative, take up such a huge space. Itadori's willingness to do so much to save Fushiguro's life is so precious and endearing to me, and I ofc love the blue oni/red oni dynamic they have going on more generally!

For Fushiguro and Sukuna, I really enjoy looking at their relationship in canon, and reading deeper (than Gege intended I'm sure) into Sukuna's fascination with Fushiguro. I like the contrast between Fushiguro's calm exterior and unwillingness to show desire and Sukuna's whole thesis of "take what you want." I love that Sukuna wants to push Fushiguro further and further, in every sense of the word. I love that they spend so much time sharing a body, and the intimacy that entails.

Nobara and Maki are so darling to me. I really do wish we'd seen more of them interacting in canon, though I do think that what we did see is so undeniably gay. The contrast in their upbringings is so fascinating to me, I'd love to be a fly on the wall for a conversation about that. That Nobara has shown multiple times that the people who have inspired her throughout her life have all been women - how does Maki feel being put on that kind of pedestal? I'd be quite keen to see some post-canon for these two, after everything that's happened and how long Nobara has been out of the picture.

RIka and Yuuta... <3 What can I say? I love love! I do genuinely think that their connection is so undeniable and sweet. I like all interpretations of this relationship -- but I think the impact that Rika continues to have on Yuta throughout canon is so important to how he views and interacts with everyone around him. Anything at all about these two would be great, whether something set during their first meeting as children or Yuta navigating curse Rika as he grows older, or even something set during or post canon showing how they've both changed and evolved since 0, and how their connection remains despite those changes. I'm happy to see Yuuta/Curse RIka content in almost any form, though per my underage DNW I'd prefer aspects of her child form are kept out of any NSFW content.

Dungeon Meshi
Mithrun & Thistle; Thistle & Falin Touden; Thistle & Laois Touden; Marcille Donato & The Winged Lion

Things I like about this canon: Cooking and feeding others as a form of love; faustian bargains; monsters and weird monster anatomy; dungeoneering and adventuring; wider politicking of the various races; soft magic systems and weird applications of such; desire as a physical organ; necromancy and the implications of being brought back to life; dark magic; corruption arcs

Anything else?: Thistle is kind of my little guy. I just have so many thoughts about the characters who wanted something so much that they were willing to make such deeply disturbing deals with the various dungeon demons. Any and all combinations of the above characters having a chance to talk about or judge the others' choices. What ifs and AU's where things go down differently are also so interesting to me. What if Falin was ressurected with the ability to speak and more of her original personality? What if Marcille needed a different kind of convincing from the Winged Lion? Quiet moments of contemplation and forced proximity would also work really well for this group of characters I feel!

Challengers (Movie 2024)
Art Donaldson/Patrick Zweig; Art Donaldson/Tashi Donaldson; Tashi Donaldson/Patrick Zweig; Art Donaldson/Tashi Donaldson/Patrick Zweig

Things I like about this canon: Dealing with the aftermath of injury; miscommunication; changing yourself for someone else; missed connections; friends to enemies; connection through a sport that only loves them sometimes; fame vs obscurity; rich people playing at poverty; desperation; rivalry; relationships coloured by the absence of another person

Anything else?: This movie was so stylish, and polished in its presentation of the story of these three, giving us snippets of context at a time. I love how all three of them have secrets and codes with each other, how they can call back to years of history with a glance. I think Art's willingness to go along with Tashi's dream of high level tennis vs. his willingness to sell Patrick down the river to win her over in the first place is so interesting. It's matched in deviousness only by Tashi and Patrick's continued affair through the years behind his back.

I like to think about all the ways these three hurt each other, while not being able to let go of the influence the others have on their life and choices. A fic set during any time in the film or after would be great. We see glimpses of their sex lives and how different Tashi is with Patrick and Art -- how would this translate if all three of them were together? Do they reconcile after the film or after the adrenaline wears off, do they all go right back to hating each other? Does Art quit? Does Tashi decide to coach Patrick?

When it comes to AU's, I'd love any kind of what-if scenario -- what if Tashi recovered from her injury? What if Art and Patrick had stayed friends despite Tashi and Patrick's break up? What if Tashi had stayed with Patrick instead -- would he have had the same success? Also, I'd be really interested in something where they play a different sport and how a change in the kind of game they've devoted themselves to could potentially change their characters.

The Substance (2024)
Elizabeth Sparkle/Sue

Things I like about this canon: Body dysmorphia, blood and gore, self-hatred, weird science; the dark spaces lurking in large celebrity homes; womanhood and performing womanhood; fear of aging; deals with hidden consequences; horrible bosses; isolation; medical horror

Anything else?: You can ignore my no-noncon DNW for this ship. The main thing I came out of this film wanting more of was Sue and Elizabeth interacting with each other directly, in any way shape or form. I like the imbalance between the two and how Sue's disregard for Elizabeth's wellbeing is her downfall in the end. What would it be like to be so repulsed by a version of yourself, while still knowing that they know you better than anyone else in the world? What would it take for the two of them to cooperate with each other more successfully? Would weird sex  have helped their situation or made it worse...? Probably the latter, but I think they should try anyway!

I also love when women are horrible and off-putting and while they both looked beautiful, there was a real meanness in both Sue and Elizabeth that I would love to see explored!