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Hi there! Thank you for creating for me. 💛 I am academicgangster on Tumblr, and simplecoffee on ao3.
So, the thing I love most in fanwork is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, usually in a hurt/comfort-y way. I've mentioned the character dynamics and ships I love under each fandom, along with some rambly thoughts and prompts - speaking of which, please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of said prompts, if that's where the muse takes you. 💛

I love hurt/comfort with all my heart and soul, so most of the prompts here will probably contain it to some degree.

I am a-okay with any kind of exploration of character dynamics - h/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I enjoy it, but if you've matched on multiple ratings, please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. :D

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Once again, thank you for creating for me! I hope you have fun with it - that's what it's all about, after all. 💛

Hi there! Thank you for creating for me. 💛 I am academicgangster on Tumblr, and simplecoffee on ao3.

So, the thing I love most in fanwork is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, usually in a hurt/comfort-y way. I've mentioned the character dynamics and ships I love under each fandom, along with some rambly thoughts and prompts - speaking of which, please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of said prompts, if that's where the muse takes you. 💛

I love hurt/comfort with all my heart and soul, so most of the prompts here will probably contain it to some degree.

I am a-okay with any kind of exploration of character dynamics - h/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, established relationship, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I enjoy it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the lovin', I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D

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Once again, thank you for creating for me! I hope you have fun with it - that's what it's all about, after all. 💛

Hi there! Thank you so much for sharing my fandoms and excitement about robot characters, and for creating for me!

Here are some of my thoughts about the fandoms I've requested - please feel free to use any of them as prompts, or just to use them as a guideline instead! Thanks for reading.

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Once again, thank you for creating a fanwork for me! I hope something here strikes your fancy, and that you have fun with it. 💛

Hi there, Unsent Letters writer! Thank you for sharing my fandoms and creating for me. <3
I am academicgangster on Tumblr, and simplecoffee on ao3.

So, the thing I love most in fanfic is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, in either a gen or a shippy way. I've mentioned the character dynamics and ships I love under each fandom, along with some rambly thoughts and prompts - speaking of which, please feel free to please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of said prompts, if that's where the muse takes you. <3

I also love hurt/comfort with all my soul, so please feel free to write as much of it as your muse desires. 💛

I am a-okay with any kind of exploration of character dynamics - h/c, casefic, fluff fic, angst, missing scenes, outsider POV, outsider POV contrasted with canon characters' POV, getting together fic, you name it I love it. I'm also very much okay with or without smut - I like it, but please don't feel pressured to include it or not to include it. If you do feel inclined toward the lovin', I have a preference for a Mature rating over an Explicit rating, but I will likely enjoy whatever rating speaks to you. :D

( Likes & DNWs )

And now for some prompts!

( The Hunt for Red October (1990) )


( Mission: Impossible - Ethan/Hunley, Ethan/Luther )


( Mission: Impossible - Ethan/Max )


( Men in Black (Movies) )

A masterlist of fandoms and characters/pairings/dynamics I've requested in exchanges so far, behind the cut.

( in no particular order )

Hello, and thank you so much for writing for me! I am simplecoffee on ao3, and academicgangster on tumblr.

Of the four fandoms I'm requesting this year, one (Collateral) has a deeply kinky, mutual dubcon vibe, and for that one, I'm in it for all the kink. For the other three, I've requested pairings that have a traumatic, messed up, noncon dynamic, and I'm very much in those for the horror and trauma of the act and possible recovery afterwards.

I'm a-okay with a Mature or Explicit rating, wherever the muse takes you! I'm also pretty easy - I ramble a lot in this letter, with a lot of ideas and thoughts that generally start with the canon character dynamic and then run with it. Please feel free to mix and match any of the prompts, or even not to use any of them and just to use the list of them as a jumping-off point for however you'd like to go exploring that particular dynamic - whichever you prefer.

( Likes, kinks and DNWs )


( Collateral (2004) - Requested Tags )

( Thoughts/Prompts )

( Fandom-Specific DNWs )


( Mission: Impossible (Movies) - Requested Tags )

Hi there! Thank you so much for sharing my fandoms and for writing for me! <3 I am academicgangster on Tumblr, and simplecoffee on ao3.

Pining is one of my favourite flavours of shipfic, and the pairing dynamics I love tend to lend themselves heavily both to pining and to hurt/comfort - so you'll find a lot of the freeforms I've requested include some h/c on the side. I've also requested, in all sections bar Under Siege, that the pining character's affections be requited - I'm all about the happy, or at least bittersweet-but-positive, endings.

My favourite thing in fanfic is to take canon dynamics and just make them More, exploring the characters' canonical feelings for each other in, for this exchange, a shippy way. So I've arranged my requests by pairing; for each request, each tag in the cloud can be taken as a prompt on its own, or you can read the tags for that request as a whole and get a pretty solid idea of the general vibe for that pairing that I adore. I'm going to ramble a bit in this letter about some individual tags that catch my fancy, but I do love all the tags very much, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to love whichever one(s) you choose, regardless of whether or not I mention it separately here. <3

I've listed some general likes and DNWs here, and fandom-specific ones under individual fandoms.

( General likes )

( General DNWs )

( Top Gun (1986) - Maverick/Iceman )

( Mission: Impossible (Movies) - Ethan/Hunley, Ethan/Luther )

( Under Siege (1992) - Agent Strannix/Commander Krill )

Once again, thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you have fun creating. 💛

Hey there! Thank you so much for sharing my fandoms and for writing for me! <3 Hurt/comfort is my literal favourite thing in fandom (as my ao3 and tumblr will attest), and I am So Excited for this exchange!

So, the thing I love most in fanfic is taking canon character dynamics and just...making them More. Taking them further, exploring their natural progression, in either a gen or a shippy way. Most of my requests include the gen variant of a character dynamic as well as the romantic version, so I'd love either the & or the / just as much! (There are just a few where I have a clear romantic-or-platonic preference, and for those I have requested only the & or the / version, not both.)

With that reasoning, I've arranged my requests by pairing: for each request, each tag in the cloud can be taken as a prompt on its own, or you can read the tags for that request as a whole and get a pretty solid idea of the general vibe for that pairing that I adore. I'm going to ramble a bit in this letter about some individual tags that catch my fancy, but I do love all the tags very much, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to love whichever one(s) you choose, regardless of whether or not I mention it separately here. <3

( General likes )

( Sexual likes )

( DNWs )

And now for some rambling about character dynamics and h/c tags, lovely writer!

( Mission: Impossible - Ethan & Jane, Ethan & Everyone )


( Ethan/Max )( Edge of Tomorrow )
Once again, thank you for writing for me! I hope you have fun writing; that's what it's all about, after all. 💛

Dear Yuletide Writer -

First of all, thank you for being awesome, 'cause I know you're awesome! ♥

You're in a fandom I'm in, so I'm sure I'll enjoy whatever you come up with! I do have...a ton of thoughts about Everything, as per my usual, so I'm just going to wordspill a little bit here. First, the very basics:

Things I adore in fic: Hurt/comfort (usually in roughly equal proportion), character studies, canon-compliant angst, slice-of-life fic, friendship and soft affection. genuinely, throw any classic h/c scenario at me and I will be a happy, happy clam.

Things I'm not keen on in fic: Mundane/depowered AUs (coffee shop etc - I prefer fic to mostly stick with canon), unrealistic medical details, gastrointestinal illness, deathfic, noncon, violent or aggressive homophobia, Explicit-rated stuff (I'm a-okay with Mature though!)
 
(also, this is not in any way obligatory, but in case you'd like some random h/c ideas, i have a hurt/comfort tag on tumblr that's full of 'em!)

While I'm rambling, here are some fandom-specific thoughts - please feel free to pick, choose, mix, match, play with any, all or even none of them. (Please don't feel obliged to stick with any of the prompts, either - these are just here in case they strike your fancy. If you feel like surprising me instead, absolutely surprise me! <3)

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Thank you for reading, and thank you for writing! and speaking of writing, I hope you have fun doing so - that's the whole point of it, after all. ♥

My thoughts on watching my first film in the Mission Impossible series, Mission Impossible: Fallout: HEY, NOBODY TOLD ME ETHAN HUNT IS A SOFT AND SELF-DEPRECATING CUTIE WHO'S ALMOST ALWAYS IN OVER HIS HEAD AND SOMETIMES HAS NIGHTMARES. 

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS. I'd have watched the rest of the series a whole lot sooner if I'd known! To think that all this time I've been labouring under the delusion that he was Just Another Spy Who Kicks Ass. ...Not that Spies Who Kick Ass are not my weakness; they absolutely are, it's a thing. But y'know, there is a cookie cutter when it comes to these characters, and there is the fact that people men boys tend to strike up conversations around the concept of 'who would win? James Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer or Ethan Hunt?', which made me broadly put Hunt in the same category as the other three - who tend as such to be ~pretty dark and brutal. I was also probably going off my impression of Tom Cruise's other spy/agent character, Jack Reacher - both of whose films I enjoyed a great deal, but felt no particular affinity toward the character himself. So Ethan's actual character was a super pleasant surprise.

Seriously. Wholesome. He's doing the job because he cares too much and he hasn't let it make him cynical at all. He knows all the shit he ends up pulling is surreal and that he shouldn't have got out of any of it alive. He makes no secret of flying by the seat of his pants when he has to, and even laughs at himself for it. He has an ex he's on healthy speaking terms with. And he makes sure everyone's safe, and he sometimes has nightmares. I'm not in love - my 'compassionate hero in a high-ranking government job' top spot belongs to Sam Gerard from The Fugitive, who, though he is many things, is decidedly not a spy - but I am impressed.

I do continue to be unimpressed with the general tendency of Boys (an occupational hazard in thriller film fandom) to always be like "bro, let's put all the super spies together in a hypothetical FIGHT and then find out who would hypothetically WIN". I propose instead that we put them all in a room-escape game, with real-world consequences to make it fun, and tell them they have to fight, when the truth is they can only actually win by cooperating. So, superspies / covert operatives with franchises unite: James Bond, movieverse Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer (24) and Ethan Hunt. Maybe toss in Jack Reacher and also Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon) - and although Jack Ryan is an analyst rather than a spy spy, he also gets in on account of a) working for the CIA and b) having Harrison Ford's face.

I figure Riggs starts a bunch of squabbles for the fun of it, Bond goes around shooting stuff, and Ryan is the first to call bullshit. This is stupid, Ryan says. Why are we fighting each other, Ryan says. (Just because some punk said so? Ryan says, pointing an angry finger at a security camera.)

Hunt says, reasonably, "Because there are three of us here called Jack."

Then Natasha Romanoff busts them all out of there, with Evelyn Salt in tow, because they're both awesome and deserve their own franchises.