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Epidemfic 2025 Letter
Jun. 8th, 2025 10:42 pm General Likes
The Magnus Protocol
Gwen/Alice
Gwen and Alice are so frenemies to lovers in my eyes, but other characterizations are welcome! I love the way that Alice messes with Gwen, but also seems to care at least a little when things start to go wrong for her. I love the idea of Gwen overworking herself, especially with new responsibilities, and then Alice has to care for her, or that Alice is worried about Sam and keeps staying late and Gwen doesn't realize until she's passed out at the computer.
Charmed (1998)
Prue/Cole
Farscape (1999)
Aeryn/John
Case fic | Episode tags/post-ep fic or moments in between episodes | 5 (or more) + 1 | Time loops, time travel, otherwise messing with the timelines | Looking into the future -- through visions, crystal balls, whatever | Amnesia (complete, only about specific moments, all characters, just one character--it's one of my favorite tropes) | Secrets (being revealed, keeping them, near misses) | Identity Porn | Mutual pining | Teamwork | Fluff | Hurt/Comfort, Sickfic, Whump | Angst with a happy ending | "Oh" moments/realizations | Alternate universe, canon divergence, what if? | epistolary work (especially unsent letters vs what was actually sent!) | power swaps, body swaps, role swaps | empathy (feeling each other's emotions) | character studies!! | established relationships | crushes to relationship | enemies to friends to lovers (i LOVE the friends part in between) | exploring certain aspects (fears, loves, hopes, hates) unwillingly (think where they go into everyone's dreams and have to find a way out, or they’re exploring a mindscape) | non-sexual intimacy | consequences for canon actions (injury leading to disability, relationships changing because somebody said something) | accidental baby acquisition
General DNWs
Explicit smut/NSFW (keep it PG-13 or fade to black, please!) | Underage or considerable age gap relationships (underage being sexual content or implied sexual content between minors, considerable age gap being 30+ years, excepting supernatural species/events or requested pairings) | Noncon/rape/sexual assault (referring to characters being unwilling to participate in sexual/romantic activities. Canon mentions or backstory are acceptable, but please don’t go into detail). | Incest (including step-relationships and adopted relationships) | Significant power gaps (teacher/student, CEO/employee) | Graphic or non-canon harm to animals | Transphobia/homophobia/racism/bigotry from requested characters or ships that differs from canon. | Major Original Characters (major in this case meaning taking up as much "screentime" as requested characters, exception: worldbuilding) | Branding or carving symbols into skin (tattooing is fine, as are non-graphic descriptions or passing mentions in fic) | Omegaverse/Mpreg | Genderbends | 1st/2nd person POV in non-epistolary | character bashing. in-character disliking of characters is fine, as is criticism of canonically questionable actions | vomit, scat, piss or watersports | graphic descriptions of saliva | mentions of Harry Potter or Harry Potter AUs |
Sickfic Notes
Hanahaki - the idea of chronic Hanahaki really appeals to me, as well as the flowers changing depending on the feelings. I prefer the "comes from not confessing feelings" to "comes from unrequited feelings" but both are welcome!
I'm okay if you mention death in any way, including major/requested characters or temporary death, just as long as the requested pairings interact at least once (even in flashbacks).
Firefall Series - Peter Watts
I'll start off by saying: if you're new to the fandom, the only book you need to read for my requested pairing is Blindsight, which can be found here as a PDF or here in your browser (thanks, Peter Watts & Creative Commons!). Space, mind fuckery, transhumanism, and vampires sound like a good time? Blindsight could be for you! One day I'll get around to a more in-depth canon promo.
Sickfic Notes
Hanahaki - the idea of chronic Hanahaki really appeals to me, as well as the flowers changing depending on the feelings. I prefer the "comes from not confessing feelings" to "comes from unrequited feelings" but both are welcome!
I'm okay if you mention death in any way, including major/requested characters or temporary death, just as long as the requested pairings interact at least once (even in flashbacks).
Firefall Series - Peter Watts
I'll start off by saying: if you're new to the fandom, the only book you need to read for my requested pairing is Blindsight, which can be found here as a PDF or here in your browser (thanks, Peter Watts & Creative Commons!). Space, mind fuckery, transhumanism, and vampires sound like a good time? Blindsight could be for you! One day I'll get around to a more in-depth canon promo.
Michelle/Isaac: it's so obvious how deeply they care for each other even if we don't get much of their relationship in the book. I think it could be fun to explore a few what-ifs, or maybe some pre-novel things. Getting together, fluff, angst, I'm here for it all!
There's obviously the potential for sickfic from what that they had on Rorschach (maybe Theseus couldn't heal something), or even just plain normal stuff that they have to deal with. What if they were awake on the trip over and had to take care of each other? Besides that, there's the potential for Isaac's cybernetics to mess with him, or for Michelle's synesthesia to cause pain instead of other senses.
You're also welcome to explore the influences that the other members of the Gang have on Michelle's relationship or illness--do they get sick when she does, or is it split like they are? What kind of alien influence would Rorschach have on any illness? For hanahaki, is it something regularly encountered, a bio-engineered contagion common to the future world, or is it something alien?
More detail: That canon promo post will be coming soon! Hopefully xD
You're also welcome to explore the influences that the other members of the Gang have on Michelle's relationship or illness--do they get sick when she does, or is it split like they are? What kind of alien influence would Rorschach have on any illness? For hanahaki, is it something regularly encountered, a bio-engineered contagion common to the future world, or is it something alien?
More detail: That canon promo post will be coming soon! Hopefully xD
The Magnus Protocol
Gwen/Alice
Gwen and Alice are so frenemies to lovers in my eyes, but other characterizations are welcome! I love the way that Alice messes with Gwen, but also seems to care at least a little when things start to go wrong for her. I love the idea of Gwen overworking herself, especially with new responsibilities, and then Alice has to care for her, or that Alice is worried about Sam and keeps staying late and Gwen doesn't realize until she's passed out at the computer.
The idea of them softening when realizing the other has a chronic or terminal illness, only to go right back to teasing each other to keep things "normal" is also something of a favorite of mine.
Alternatively, going in the direction of the supernatural, is there an External that causes hanahaki? Who would be more likely to get bitten by a werewolf?
More detail: Character studies would be really cool, how do they progress throughout the show we've seen so far, how did they meet. I'm also good with going in a different direction. Throw some AUs in there, that's all good! I think they could be fun in exploring these two.
More detail: Character studies would be really cool, how do they progress throughout the show we've seen so far, how did they meet. I'm also good with going in a different direction. Throw some AUs in there, that's all good! I think they could be fun in exploring these two.
Charmed (1998)
Prue/Cole
Prue and Cole are, of course, my OTP, and anything you write for them will be cherished (as will anything else requested here, of course!)
For sick!Cole, I think exploring how his half-demon heritage affects him could be an interesting idea--what are the consequences of being a member of two worlds, are there any demon-specific illnesses that could affect him that the mortal characters wouldn't know about? How do human illnesses affect a half-demon?
For sick!Prue, she's always been someone who needs to have control of what's going on, and being sick can mean that she loses that. I think the idea of her having to tone things down a little and hating it the entire time could work really well. Of course, magical illnesses are also intriguing for her, especially if they mess with her powers
For the enemy returns captured character to allies scenario, I'd prefer if Prue was the captured character mostly because I couldn't imagine her bringing demon!Cole back to his demon peers (sounds a bit like punishment, honestly).
More detail: I love Prue's relationship with her sisters (and wouldn't mind if Paige is also involved somehow). Exploring the demon world in the show beyond what we seen in the show could also be cool!
More detail: I love Prue's relationship with her sisters (and wouldn't mind if Paige is also involved somehow). Exploring the demon world in the show beyond what we seen in the show could also be cool!
Farscape (1999)
Aeryn/John
UGH love these two so much. I'm going to talk through the scenarios I've tagged because I procrastinated a little and then got indecisive when it came to illness/symptom tags, but you can include pretty much any (non-sexual-related) symptom/illness in here and I'd probably be delighted because (as mentioned) I love these two so much!
Calling Character's name while sick and asleep - Could work for either of them, especially before they get involved. Sure, it's cool when you're friends with someone, but when that someone wants you, specifically when they're sick? Things can get a little deeper. Also works for AUs, any time in their relationship even post-show. How would they feel knowing that their partner is ill and they can't do anything to make them feel better?
Character A ingests a poison meant for Character B - Again, could work for either of them. A slightly angsty fight over who should've been poisoned? Guilt over putting their partner in danger? A rush to find the antidote, then finding that it's tucked behind some kind of obstacle/situation that the poisoned partner would be perfect for? *chef's kiss*
Realizing Character is sick because of how hot their hand is - This could work really well with Sebacean heat delirium, maybe they're somewhere where it doesn't seem like it would be hot and things slowly get worse, or maybe Aeryn is extremely temperature sensitive so she realizes John's sick before he even starts feeling ill.
Sick A jokes that they must be pregnant with B's child; turns out it's true - Could be AU, could be future, post-Peacekeeper Wars (three isn't such a scary number) Could be John pregnant with Aeryn's child, if you want (waiving my mpreg DNW here). Was this planned or not? To add on to this idea, I also kind of like the idea that being pregnant with a baby that's 1/2 another species would probably have some physical effects--what would that look like for either of them?
More detail: I love pretty much all of their interactions with the rest of the canon characters, so if you want to include, say, Zhaan or Rygel, go right ahead!
More detail: I love pretty much all of their interactions with the rest of the canon characters, so if you want to include, say, Zhaan or Rygel, go right ahead!
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