RMSE 2021!

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Dear creator,

Thank you so much for makiing something for for me! I hope this letter is helpful to you, if you’re looking for some inspiration, but it’s hardly exhaustive of everything that I enjoy — I hope you have fun this RMSE as well!

- plastics

General

General likes

Scenery, tradition, communities

I absolutely love being transported to a specific time, place, and/or culture. All of them. I love seeing how characters interact with the places and things around them, and I love it as a form of intimacy.

This can also be within smaller groups of people, perhaps within a limited window! I love sports teams, boarding schools or summer camps or colleges, subcultures, intense careers, and the like. I also love focusing on less “glamorous” positions—it’s a shitty job or a shitty town or a shitty situation, but goddamn it, it’s your shit. As an extension, I really love AUs that still capture the dynamics at play in the original setting.

Relationship messiness

People make the wrong choices for the right person (or the wrong person, but it feels so right) just works for me. This covers a lot of ground: codependent relationships, infidelity, power imbalances, working through internalized homophobia, assholes in love, and so on.

Casual sex (or is it (it is (unless…?))! Best friends (unless!?)! Taking time to figure out what the fuck your relationship is! Knowing what it is and loving and being dedicated to each other but still having to put in the work! Highs and lows within established relationships! The honeymoon period shining a little too bright!

Competency, loyalty, dedication

Really, I’m just very character-focused. I love seeing what people are good at and what (and who) they care about. They don’t need to be saintly about it, and it doesn’t need to come easy—making the choice is what really gets me.

I have also recently rediscovered my love for romance tropes, especially ones focused on how much the two characters just really, genuinely like each other. “As you wish”-ass levels of dedication. Pining because you don’t want to hurt what you’ve got already. Intimate little touches. Wooing your love interest with just, like, all the love languages. People committing to each other!!!

Some tropes that trope sorter quizzes confirmed that I liked, in roughly alphabetical order

A/B/O • Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target • Arranged Marriage • Temporary Amnesia • Break Up/Make Up • Childhood Friends • Enemies to Friends to Lovers (or any order therein) • Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings • Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea • Found Families • Hidden/Mistake Identities • Highly Specific AUs • Loyalty Kink • Organized Crime • Regency • Rivals • Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings • Seemingly Unrequited Pining • Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together • Soulmates/soulbonds • Sports! • Supernatural Creatures

Smut

assplay • begging • bruising or biting • casual sex • come marking • desperation • dirty talk/verbal humiliation • drunk or high sex • dubcon • edging • familiarity • finger sucking • first times • frottage • hands • informal D/s • manhandling • mouth kink • multiple orgasms • nipple play • oral sex • over the clothes • overstimulation • pining while fucking • playful sex • possessiveness • power imbalances • rough sex • size differences

In general, I’m a bit basic in that I do like dommy, bigger, stronger, older tops/alphas/penetrators, who are maybe a little (or very) mean. They don’t have to be all those things or extremely those things, but if you’re wondering who’d I prefer on top, it’s a fairly reliable preference.

I also really like things on the dubious to noncon scale, from things as small as "they probably should have talked about this more but didn't" straight up to "Character A straight up does not want this but it's happening anyway." I do like it when there are some complicating factors that keep it from being a boring, painful time for the victim: forced orgasms, being in love with the perpetrator, manipulated into place...

Art likes

I’m not very good at art-specific prompts, but boy howdy do I love looking at things. Generally, I like oversaturation, contrast, color blocking; tender moments (fingers brushing, kissing, holding hands, intense eye contact), atmosphere and settings; details and clutter. Bright, warm colors make me really happy. I also like environmental pieces and art that fleshes out the world—informational brochures, “photos,” postcards—and captures those quiet moments that are hard to get with words.

My art I like tag and my photography I like tag

 

A few examples, if you’d like: x | x | x | x | x

Do Not Want

(Unless otherwise requested): apocalypse, devastating natural disasters, or complete dystopias - explicit underage sex (<15) - gender or sex swap, feminization, crossdressing for male characters - violent hate crimes or other extreme instances of bigotry, fighting isms as the main plot - heavy focus on IRL religions - incest treated as normal or culturally accepted, intergeneral incest - kidfic, unrequested pregnancy/parenthood - major character death, gore, body horror, terminal illness, serious injuries resulting from sex, impact play (but wrestling, bruising, etc. with some soreness is all good) - slavery - unrequested poly

REQUESTS

Bridgerton (TV)

Requested ships: Simon Basset/Anthony Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton/Benedict Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton/Benedict Bridgerton/Colin Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton/Colin Bridgerton, Benedict Bridgerton/OMC

I’m into the idea of A/B/O or D/s universes transporting some of the cultural tropiness female characters go through onto these ships, or maybe it’s a homophobia-is-out-purity-obsession-stays AU or… (and canonically or historically accurate is also welcome, of course. I’m not super genre savvy here, so even super well-worn Regency tropes will still get a :O!!! from me).

Simon Basset/Anthony Bridgerton

I'm fine with the fake dating plot being maintained for its stated purpose, but I'd prefer that Daphne and Simon don't have romantic or sexual interest in each other for this pairing.

— We hear talk of these two being best friends but they sure don’t seem it within the show. I’d love to see it! School days! Raising hell across Europe!

— Instead of calling for a duel when Simon and Daphne get caught in the garden, Anthony instead decides the proper thing to do to preserve Daphne's image is for him and Simon to get married instead.

— There was once a time when Anthony thought that he and Simon would be getting married. Then Simon got all Daddy Issues and disappeared, only to reappear in time to court Anthony’s sister? Rage. Raaaage. Then confessions and understanding and so on.

— Universe where mpreg is generally known, but of course the Bridgertons are of higher stock than that and it’s not like Anthony would put himself into a position to get knocked up in the first place—oh, wait, oops. Then angst (with even more intense daddy issues this time) and confessions and understanding and so on.

Bridgertonbrocest

— The sibling dynamics in this show are great, and because I am the way I am, that means I want them to bone
— All Anthony’s weirdness about Daphne, except it’s weirdness about Colin’s debut season

— Anthony does follow through with those threats of more brothel time, except he doesn’t actually trust anyone to handle his family’s affairs as well as he can

— Colin trying to prove he is also a man worth taking seriously, damn it, except Anthony isn’t paying any attention!

— More nights of them pretending to be Mature Grown Ups, bickering in the study
— Benedict is working a few things out, Anthony refuses to allow him to do so privately

Benedict Bridgerton/OMC

— Further debauchery at Granville and friends’ parties!

— — Maybe perhaps there is a masquerade ball, and the shape of the man is familiar, but no way would Anthony actually show up in a place like this, and Colin has his own friends with whom he does whatever laddish things he does in his free time, so might as well…

— Benedict having a revelation and reevaluating some of his past “friendships” with men!

— Show the man that being with another man doesn’t have to mean a world without romance!

— Benedict and Eloise have proper, heterosexual marriages — to each other’s partners. Problem solving!

Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff

Samuel’s everything and Lotto’s fucking around with dudes are two things Groff sped right by in the book, and, like, I get it, but also I didn’t get anywhere near my fill.

I'm cool with either pre-Matilde, an AU where she sticks to her no, or, gasp, infidelity fic, but I would prefer it to be either pre-part two or a nonlethal AU.

— Ol’ coxswain Sammy! Rowing is admittedly a sport I know very little about, but I’d be extremely interested in exploring it more: what training and competition looks like, how he got into it, how well Lotto takes direction in his boat…

— So much of Lotto’s confidence and sexuality and life builds directly off of Samuel’s influence (in the Maine house alone!) and I for one am very into him taking ownership of that fact.

— Lotto’s Romantic Revisionism is instead about him and Samuel being high school sweethearts. It was never that easy.

— Two Bros Who Are Fucking And Also Mean The Entire World To Each Other And No They Will Not Be Thinking Any Deeper On This Matter

— Bonus smut-flavored tags: "Practice" No-Homo Sex Is Actually Real Feelings Sex, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Breeding Kink - as dirty talk without risk, Breeding Kink - while trying to conceive, Casual Sex while Secretly Pining, Character A and Character B Mutually Pine For Each Other While They Fuck Other People Together, First Time with Partner of the Same Gender, Long Prolonged Make-Outs, Reluctant Attraction - Same-Gender Attraction After Professing Straightness

— Bonus wedding-flavored tags: Divorce - Keep “Forgetting” to Annul the Marriage, Elopement - To Piss Off Family, Established Marriage - Making It Work But Work Is The Word For It, Marriage - Becoming the Parent of Step-children, Honeymoon - Fucking Like Crazy All Over The Place, Marriage - Regularly Being Mistaken as a Married Couple Leads to Real Marriage, Newlyweds - Mismatched Expectations of Marriage, Proposal - Joke Proposal Taken Seriously, Proposal - Proposing on a Whim

Ghost of Tsushima

Requested ship: Ryuzo/Jin Sakai

— Probably the most obvious prompt, but instead of being a contrary fuck, Ryuzo joins Yuna in leading Jin down the path of Whatever It Takes, and they get to soak in the hot springs bragging about kill counts as Jin so desired.

— What were their earlier years like together? Clearly jealousy wasn’t a small part of their past relationship, but to what extent? What did the good times look like? Was Ryuzo as bad as Lord Shimura thought, or was he just something as dreadful as… being middle class!?

— One of those legendary weapons/armor/gear that Jin uncovers has the unintended side effect of soulbonding him to Ryuzo, or some other magical shenanigans that drags them together.

— The shogun (and Jin) are a bit more merciful, and instead of both of them getting the death penalty (with varying success), he instead forces them to get married and learn the importance of family, loyalty, and responsibility up close. Maybe it was supposed to have been an insult, forcing him to marry another man… but they have so much history… but being a samurai’s wife was not Ryuzo’s goal in life…

Not Another D&D Podcast

Requested ships: Hardwon Surefoot/Beverly Toegold V, Jens Lyndelle/Nyack

(Otherwise known as, “the cast make jokes, I go ‘haha but really tho.’”)

(Erlin Kindleaf/)Hardwon Surefoot/Beverly Toegold V

— Because I am who I am, the scenes where Hardwon is deeply aware of how their boundary-crossing is going to cost him his scout master title and Bev talking about his secret fantasy journals and calling Hardwon his brother within, like, one scene are what really hooked me on this ship. So! More of that conflict please!

— Bev (and potentially Erlin) is very concerned about getting Romance and Sex right and admires Hardwon so much and Hardwon is like uhhhh yeah hahah yeah sure I absolutely know all about those things

— — Having to feel through this inexperienced while feeling obligated to be The Mature One while they’re mostly on equal footing in this area, but also not.

— Hardwon tries to pull a “try again when you’re older” but what does that even MEAN Bev’s AN IMMORTAL SIXTEEN YEAR OLD (although getting out of the more unfortunate stages of puberty probably doesn’t count as a “downside of aging”…)

— — The unbearable UST of saving the world together but then WAITING for THIS for T W O Y E A R S?? He had to banish his dad! Let him get to the fun parts of having his innocence torn to smithereens!

— — Guilt when he cracks early! Guilt when, turns out, waiting until 12:01 a.m. on Bev’s eighteenth birthday doesn’t actually feel that much different!

— Some sort of magic/sex pollen/halfling A/B/O breaks the seal and having to work through What It All Means (especiall with more, you guessed it, guilt on Hardwon’s side, with a heaping side dish of oh god is he not straight is he not straight over BEVERLY?)

Jens Lyndelle/Nyack

I feel bad that I basically don’t have any prompts for these two but everything about them is RIGHT THERE. I just want very very very badly to see Jens take advantage of the fact he knows Nyack would do anything for him, and Nyack would do anything to earn his big baby brother’s love.

Point Break (1991)

Requested ships: Bodhi/Johnny Utah

YOU WANT ME SO BAD IT’S LIKE ACID IN YOUR MOUTH.

Y O U N G D U M B A N D F U L L O F C O M E

I just got around to watching this movie last summer, and while I’d heard about it and Keanu Reeves’ love for Patrick Swayze in it long before then… oh my god. It was everything I’d dreamed of and more. And now I want them to fuck instead of (just) sublimating it into increasingly dangerous stunts.

Re: my major character death DNW, I don’t mind Bodhi’s “ambiguous” ending, but I don’t want a fic that’s all about Johnny mourning him being dead, and the story ending with him still being dead, for instance. Fics set before the ending, fix-its, or AUs are all welcome. I’m not super interested in Johnny rejoining law enforcement or Bodhi receiving punishment in the form of a prison sentence.

— Ill-fated soulmates! Bodhi shouldn’t risk the operation by bringing in this guy they just met! Johnny shouldn’t be so enamored with a suspect! But neither of them really has a choice on the matter.

— Johnny goes pro, Bodhi is still his surfing mentor but has Feelings about the sport’s commercialization.

— Johnny was a Bruin (or Trojan) instead of a Buckeye, and Bodhi got to him a lot earlier. Maybe Bodhi’s still a surfer, or maybe he’s just a kind of football player they just do not get in Ohio. Johnny remains starstruck.

— Additional smut-flavored tags: [blank] to Lovers - Sexual Coercion, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Antagonism Leads to Sex, BDSM AU - organisational hierarchy is also dom/sub hierarchy, Dub/Noncon - Aggressor Tries to Arouse Victim, Face-Fucking as an Act of Trust, Markings - Hickeys/Bite Marks, Non-Consensual Groping, Noncon - Falsely Intimate Threatening Touches, Reluctant attraction - sexual attraction to someone they (should) dislike, Sex as an Assertion of Dominance, Unexpected Tenderness During Rough Sex

— Additional marriage-flavored tags: Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Reluctant Ally Under Control, Elopement - Eloping While on the Run from the Law, Forced Marriage - Marriage Being Used as a Punishment, Forced Marriage - Marriage Required as a Form of Criminal Rehabilitation, Marriage - Hidden Identity is Revealed, Marriage of Convenience - Volunteering to Marry Condemned Criminal to Save Them from Punishment, Newlyweds - Mismatched Expectations of Marriage, Soul Bond - Soulmates Legally Obligated To Marry

Surfing RPF

Requested ships: John Florence/Gabriel Medina, John Florence/Kelly Slater, Robert August/Mike Hynson, Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson

I had to refrain from just writing a(nother) primer here since I know this is somewhat of a niche request BUT I can guarantee you I’d be beyond psyched to see anything about these guys.

John Florence/Gabriel Medina

— As seen on: Most recently, their Pipe Masters final (yes. yes.) and John’s IG post about it. Do not make eye contact with the neckbeard. Do take a gander at Gabe.

— Rivals to lovers! These two have spent their entire professional careers, since they were teens, being pit against each other, compared, competing against each other…

John Florence/Kelly Slater

— As seen on: Everything written about modern American and Hawaiian surfing, lol

— The GOAT. The next GOAT, who was personally selected by GOAT Sr. and has been crafted in his image. Idolization. Daddy issues. It writes itself.

Robert August/Mike Hynson

— As seen on: Endless summer

— Travel! Draft dodging! The 1960s!

Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew/Shaun Tomson

— As seen on: Bustin’ Down The Door

— Triple dog daring each other into making pro surfing a thing! Those early days where there weren’t two pennies to rub together! The danger! Parties!

— Additional smut-flavored tags: "Practice" No-Homo Sex Is Actually Real Feelings Sex, A/B/O - Alpha/Alpha, Antagonism Leads to Sex, Can't Stop Thinking About It - Character A Hears Character B Talking About Sex, Casual Sex, Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions, Competence Kink, Competitiveness in Bed, Dirty Talk - Homophobic Dirty Talk, Drugs - Drunk Sex, Dubious Consent, First Time with Partner of the Same Gender, A has internalised homophobia but can still fuck B because it doesn't mean anything!, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Name-Calling, Reluctant attraction - sexual attraction to someone they (should) dislike, Sex between rivals, Unexpected feelings