Dear Creator: InterHigh 2018

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Updated: Feb. 23, 2018

Hi Creator! 

 

Thank you so much for spending time creating something for me. I’ve broken this letter down into general likes/dislikes, and then a short section on each fandom I’ve requested. 

 

The letter doesn’t cover everything that I like (My AO3 bookmarks may give you more ideas, but I’ve been meaning to update them because they’re currently a mess) and don’t feel pressured to fit your creation to what I like! Also if you want to take a prompt/concept and just run with it, feel free to do that too!

Thanks so much again for creating something for me!

General Themes I Like:

Platonic Relationships – I love friendship. I’m always a sucker for platonic cuddling, hair ruffling, and just people being protective/supportive of each other. Hair ruffling and forehead kisses are like my ultimate weakness. 

Families of Choice – This is pretty much my favorite trope of all time. People choosing to be each other’s families and just platonically loving each other is my favorite thing in the entire world. 

Trust/Communication – I really love this theme. People talking out their issues and trusting each other with their entire being, just gives me the all the feels. I especially love when people have to deal with their (and each other’s) insecurities and are supportive/protective of each other. 

Happy Endings: I just want them to be happy in the end. I can take angst (and I especially love Emotional Hurt/Comfort), but I really need happy endings for the characters. 

 

AUs/Tropes I Like:

Soulmate AUs – I’m a sucker for a good soulmate AU. I especially love the one where what you write on your skin also appears on your soulmate’s skin and soulmate identifying marks. (I also love, love Platonic Soulmate AUs, which are a lot less prevalent in fic)

Famous/Not Famous AUs – I really love when one person is famous/rich and the other isn’t and they have to navigate their relationship amongst this. A couple years ago I wrote up a really long thing about this AU on tumblr because someone asked for a different exchange. You can find it HERE.

Breakfast Club AU – I feel like I’ve read every Breakfast Club AU in every fandom that I’m in (and even a couple in fandoms I’m not in). I love this for the same reason I love “families of choice” theme – a bunch of misfit kids finding family in each other. 

DNWs:

I feel like most of these are pretty self-explanatory:  

• Rape/Non-con
• Incest
• Character Death
• PWP/Explicit Sex
• Graphic Violence
• Unhappy Endings (Feel free to include some angst, but please, please let the fic end happy). 

Haikyuu!!:

I honestly love pretty much every single character in Haikyuu!! I don’t even have an OTP because I think that almost every ship is great and wonderful on their own merits. I love Captain Squad and Setter Squad and every single team dynamic in the show. Honestly, every character/relationship dynamic in the series is gold. 

 

I had a really hard time trying to pick characters for this because I literally kept changing my mind, but I kind of broke it down into two groups based on things that I haven’t really requested before but I entirely love: 

 

Karasuno First Years: I love the Karasuno First Years in every combination. I’d really love a fic where they’re just interacting in some way. It could be canon or post-canon or an alternate universe – I just really love the five of them and their relationships with each other. I think especially as they spend more time together that they would have a really great friendship. (Feel free to put ships in, I’d just also like to request all of them interacting somehow.) I’m also Karasuno trash, so if you want to put cameos from the rest of the team, that would be great too!

 

Second Gen Caps: I sometimes forget how much I love the Second Gen Captains, because I read so much normal Captain Squad, but the interactions between the Second Gens is always portrayed so well. This is kind of similar to this entire letter in which, I just want to see them hanging out and being friends with each other. 

 

Yuri!!! On Ice:

One of my favorite relationships to explore is friendship/familial bonds between Yuuri Katsuki and Yuri Plisetsky. I’m literally always looking for platonic Yuri(s) fic. (Feel free to add Victor in too!). 

Yowamushi Pedal:

I love Sohuko (and to a lesser extent Hakone) and their relationships with each other. I especially love friendship between the first years (including Sugimoto!). My fave ship (and first sports anime OTP) was Teshima/Aoyagi, so anything with them is also really good. I think that all the relationships between the Sohoku team are interesting (including the graduated third years). 

 

The only person I really don’t like is Midousuji (mostly because he creeps me out… most of Kyoto Fushimi creep me out a little, with the exceptions of Ishigaki and Yama because they’re awesome). 

 

Kuroko: 

My favorite ships in Kuroko are KiKasa and AkaFuri. I especially love Kasamatsu being totally and completely unimpressed with Kise, but like also lowkey kind of in love with him. I think that the two of them have a really interesting relationship dynamic and would love to see something delving into their insecurities. I also love AkaFuri, especially in how they sort of their power dynamic and also their insecurities. I think that Akashi and Furihata just play off of each other really well and you can end up with something that is really fluffy and sweet, but also has a good balance of humor. 

 

I’d also love to see any creation that has a reconciled Generation of Miracles and them just hanging out and being friends (or at least attempting to be friends). My favorite episode of KnB is the OVA where they play basketball together and this easy sense of normalcy is reached again. I think that there’s some really interesting relationships to explore in the GoM.