Candy Hearts 2025

[lakeeffectgirl]

DNWs: noncon/dubcon/rape, A/B/O, 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, violence beyond the canon-typical, graphic descriptions of/focus on pain, unrequested parent/child incest.

(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.

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.

Art likes: cuteness, chibi-style, art deco flourishes. Any rating is fine. If I have written the pairing you're assigned and you like me enough to want to illustrate a scene from one of my stories, that would be amazing.

Fandom specific notes:

Good Will Hunting RPF

Matt and Ben have been my celebrity RPF OTP for more than half my life now. I can't remember a time when Ben wasn't my favorite celebrity, honestly. Feel free to either include or ignore any romantic partners they may have had whenever your idea is set. Last year when I first typed a version of these notes, Ben and JLo were still happy! What happened? - if you want to write the fic where Ben realizes he's been in love with Matt his whole life, but Matt's straight and/or doesn't love him back in the same way, I would read it!!

Possible prompts: teenage BFFs practicing kissing, the whole Matt going to pick Ben up from Vermont episode, Good Will Hunting promo/awards season being overwhelming and the only familiar thing they have in that whirlwind is each other.

AUs are also great if you want to pretend real life doesn't exist for these dudes, and make them cowboys or forensic investigators or time-travelers. Underage is fine as long as they're teens.

For Ben/Chris Moore, I realize I am probably the only person on the planet to be into this pairing or care who Chris Moore even is, but he was their producer for the early Project Greenlight stuff, and is featured heavily in the original seasons of the show. The best way I can explain Ben and Chris together is to tell you to watch this YouTube video of what was an extra on the PGL website and then the DVD set, in which they had a mini-contest for Chris Moore impersonations and Ben explains how to do it. These four minutes were formative for me; I still quote this ridiculousness and no one knows what I'm talking about, but forever captured on video is Ben pressing his face into Chris's neck as they giggle like kids.

Possible prompts: something set during early Project Greenlight, the two of them being ridiculous - or Ben being ridiculous and Chris being exasperated until Ben crawls into his lap and distracts him.

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Garden State

I have loved this movie since going on a Peter Sarsgaard movie spree after seeing Jarhead in the cinema, but didn't really think fanfic-y thoughts about it until years later. I'm most interested in Sam/Large/Mark and how that would happen, but would also be happy with Sam/Large figuring out their relationship post-movie as long as they're still hanging out with Mark and/or having adventures, or things not working out between Sam and Large and Mark/Large being endgame. (Or an in-movie Mark/Large hookup missing scene, I'd definitely read that.)

What sort of job does Large end up getting; does he quit acting entirely or does he try writing his own screenplay and DIYing a movie? Does Mark ever grow up a little more? Does Sam get more hamsters?

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Oppenheimer

Anything you'd like to do with either of these pairings would be great! Please don't be like me and feel like you need to read things about physics in order to write Oppie.

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Good Will Hunting

I was watching this movie again the other day and while Will/Chuckie is a forever OTP (I would love a Will/Chuckie story; if you'd like prompt ideas please see my exchanges tag because I've asked for it before), I found myself contemplating Sean/Gerry. They're so antagonistic and yet... I would love to read anything for them, whether when they were college students together, or post-movie as adults with decades of life experience behind them.

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Thunderheart

I would also be happy with absolutely anything for Walter/Ray. This is such a solid standalone movie, and Walter and Ray have such fantastic chemistry. Ideally, Ray returns to the reservation, but maybe Walter visits wherever Ray gets assigned next, and they find a way to meld their lives. I would also especially love some form of soulbond/mates story for this pairing, or Ray living through a Groundhog Day sort of thing until he realizes he's in love with Walter or that Walter is his soulmate (however you'd like to define it).


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Top Gun (Maverick)

I am giving you free reign, author, for any of these threesomes - anything would be lovely!! I haven't thought long and hard about these so I don't have specific scenarios I'd like to see. Truly, anything would be fab!! (If you need a prompt - anything from my likes list would be excellent.)

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Triple Frontier

I am giving you free reign here too, for any of these pairings or a combo of these pairings or really whatever configuration you want to try - anything would be lovely!! I haven't thought long and hard about these so I don't have specific scenarios I'd like to see. Truly, anything would be fab!! (If you need a prompt - anything from my likes list would be excellent.)

My only must-have here is that Redfly isn't dead, either he survives or the setting is before the movie begins.

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Generation Kill

I am giving you free reign, author, for any of these pairings or a combo of these pairings or really whatever configuration you want to try - anything would be lovely!! I haven't thought long and hard about these so I don't have specific scenarios I'd like to see. Truly, anything would be fab!! (If you need a prompt - anything from my likes list would be excellent.)

The only thing I don't want here is badmouthing one pairing/character in favor of another.

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Night Court

I hadn't really thought about Dan/Christine/Harry until I saw it in the tagset and thought, "oooh, that's my jam!". Please feel free to write whatever you'd like for either of these pairings (or both combined).

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The League

I nominated these so I figured I'd better request them; the constant jokes about Pete and Kevin being a couple while they just roll their eyes - or finish the joke themselves - makes me think they've at least done some Stuff, and if you would like Jenny to be there, all the better. Pete/Taco I hadn't really pondered much until the last time I rewatched the show and got to the episode where Taco is training Pete for the beer run, but I could see them getting drunk/high and messing around, or Taco convincing Pete to get high with him and then messing around (for whatever values of messing around you'd like).