RarePairExchange 2024

[lakeeffectgirl]

DNWs: unrequested trans characters/headcanons, unrequested parent/child incest, noncon/dubcon/rape, omegaverse, blood or bathroom kinks, extreme pain/torture (mild pain in hurt-comfort scenarios is OK), medical kinks that involve breaking the skin (a gentle 'playing doctor' kind of medical kink is OK), body horror, high school/college AUs, humiliation/degradation.


(Basically, if the story's official focus is someone getting seriously hurt/injured/caused pain in a way where they need on-screen professional medical care and not a simple first aid kit? I don't want those sorts of things.)

Likes: soft & gentle caretaking situations, food as a metaphor for love, that extra thrill of "we probably shouldn't do this… but we're doing it anyway", friends with benefits, soulmates/soulbonds, wingfic & wing-grooming, characters being soft - and/or weird - about each other, three times/five times fics, mpreg, time loops/Groundhog Day scenarios, sharing a bed, comfort outweighing the hurt, fluff, gardening, home improvement/home redecorating/going to IKEA sorts of things.

Art likes: tarot cards, chibi versions, art deco flourishes, domestic scenes, characters caring for one another. Would prefer something safe for work!

100% PLEASE don't feel like you need to follow any of my thoughts below or write anything beyond the minimum word count. I have read and loved many single-scene pieces that are just things like the characters being soft with each other, making dinner together, or cuddling on a sofa while they watch a movie.

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Fandom-specific thoughts:

Blue Beetle: I would enjoy any of these pairings! Please don't hesitate to get a little weird with what Khaji Da can do to Jaime's body (or mind), if you're so inclined.

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Top Gun RPF: Tom Cruise/Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise/Rebecca Ferguson: I think my Tom/McQ feelings are well-documented (I love them, basically, and I love how Tom feels about McQ and how he always wants McQ to be involved in his projects, because they just click re: movies), and I definitely don't mind Tom/McQ things rubbing up against Tom/Rebecca things. I would also be into Tom/Rebecca with a Rebecca/her husband framework, especially w/r/t how she got pregnant while they were on Broken Ankle Break on Fallout.

Specific DNW here: any mention of Scientology. Let's just pretend it doesn't exist!

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Generation Kill: Nate/Mike: I don't really have any thoughts here - any of my above likes would be nice!

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Jurassic Park 3: Seeing in this in the tagset reminded me of how much I enjoy this pairing. Feel free to lean in to the age difference if you're into that, paleontology things, hurt/comfort and injury recovery, celebrating Billy getting his degree.

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Northern Exposure: I might have gone overboard on my nominations here - whoops. I would really love something that goes even more into the magical realism of the show (double, triple the strange magical things! Go full-out Night Vale! Actually going full-out Night Vale with it is something I would be SUPER into). Character-wise, if you wanted to get kind of epistolary with any of the Chris pairings - like radio show excerpts mixed into the narrative - that would be amazing (this idea also works for any of the non-Chris pairings).

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The Long Walk, Stephen King: Anything where both Ray and Peter live at the end: hurt/comfort, healing together/patching each other up, starting a rebellion…

I think I'd also be into some sort of AU where a bunch of the boys all work somewhere stupid together - a mall, a Chuck-E-Cheese, and there are shenanigans.

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The Fugitive: I would like to pretend that part of U.S. Marshals never happened, please. Either fic set prior, or some sort of a Noah Lives AU.

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Hotel Artemis: I watched this for the first time a few months ago, got to the end, and thought: oh no I need them to kiss (or more). What's the backstory? What do they do when there's no one at the Hotel, or only one or two guests? Or there's a bad client and Everest has to protect Jean, or maybe there's a bad case and the guest dies and they comfort each other after cleaning up.