minebyrights | M/M Rares 2016 Letter

Happy exchange! Whoever you are and whatever canon(s) brought you here, I hope you find this pleasing, rewarding, and low on stress.

The following skirts the lines of TL;DR, but I want to emphasize up front that I am genuinely in love with all of these relationships, as well as desperate for fic for them, so anything you produce that doesn't hit my squicks will be A++. Prompts are mostly me throwing wild ideas at the walls and seeing what sticks; if you have something roiling around in your brain you really want to write for these relationships, go for it! In general, all ratings from gen to depraved NC-17 porn are good, and all gender combos are fine for background ships or whatnot.

Any differences in length of section below are due to writing this piecemeal over a couple days and not because I'm more excited for some canons over others!

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And with that, on to the letter itself!

Likes and Dislikes | The Americans (TV 2013) | The 100 (TV) | Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) | Kingsman: The Secret Service RPF | Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - All Media Types

LIKES AND DISLIKES

Likes: worldbuilding, Holmes/Watson dynamics, undercover work and casefic, bedsharing, huddling for warmth, fake relationships/fake married, bickering and bantering like old marrieds, clothing descriptions (especially period clothing, suits, kilts, tall boots), hands and feet, bathing and cleaning one another, adrenaline junkies and partners in crime, found families, snow/winter/autumn settings, 5+1s/vignettes with some thematic growth/resonance, daemons, clothed sex, frottage/intercrural/nonpenetrative sex, dubcon (sex pollen etc), light/casual BDSM (especially with subby men), topping from the bottom, oral sex, dirty talk, threesomes, masturbation, outdoor sex, voyeurism/exhibitionism

Please no: first or second person POV, pregnancy/childfic, deathfic, angst without some light at the end of the tunnel, horror/gore, character bashing, AUs (except canon divergence, future fic, and daemon AUs), tentacles, body horror/extreme body modification, omegaverse, rape/noncon, bodily fluids/watersports, anything dealing with the sexual humiliation of women (even for kink)

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THE AMERICANS (TV 2013)

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I love The Americans for so many reasons: the period piece setting, their flawless use of 70s and 80s music, the subtle pisstakes they do of Reagan, the gray morality/use of antiheros, the deliberate blurring of lines and parallels between Americans and Soviets (both legal and illegal) and their relationships with their governments, the action, the black humor, the absurd wigs and costuming. With these, I'm all about exploring those levels of grey, the life of spies, the adrenaline thrills they get, the blurring of selves and that influence over time as American and Soviet worlds collide and absorb one another. Arkady/Oleg has some great authority power games possible (along with a little borderline father-son/mentor-mentee stuff), and Oleg/Stan hits a certain bitter starcrossed lovers/friends point for me. Letter contains spoilers for season 4.

Oleg/Stan: I loved this clash of culture in S3, and they managed to up the emotions hard in S4. Them talking over the differences between their countries? Trying food or drink from the stranger culture? How their S4 break-up of sorts would play had sex been in the mix? Fucking in cars? Stan betraying something of the US to Oleg the way Oleg gives up William to Stan? Them fucking while on a case, weird mourning sex over Nina that turns (or fails to turn?) into something more?

Arkady/Oleg: God, these two looking out for one another despite themselves <3 Hatesex in Arkady's office in S2? Oleg pranking Arkady (about the radio room?) and it going wildly out of control? D/S (either configuration--Arkady taking Oleg out of his worries about his dad or Oleg taking Arkady out of his worries about being Rezident and/or being kicked out of the US)? Bitterness about Nina? Playing on the whole "you're a good son" thing in the S4 finale? Do they end up together back in Russia since they both seem to be headed that way, and if so, what do they do? (Do they get tied up with Mischa Jr. somehow?)

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THE 100 (TV)

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I love the bizarre worldbuilding of the show, how intensely (if improbably) compact everything is, relatively speaking, be it on the Ark or on the ground. I love the claustrophobia Ark residents had to grow up in and the vicious stakes they were forced to know--and then learn how to break, to some degree, on the ground. I love the culture exchanges with Grounders once they're on Earth, language games and exploring Earth, all sorts of culture and worldbuilding porn. I'd love some Bellamy/Marcus mentor/mentee-esque games, with angst over the dark things they've had to do, or backstory on Bryan/Nathan, or any sort of friends-to-lovers/closest companions for Jasper/Monty, including dealing with the various betrayals of one another they did, especially in S3. My only main thing is please no romantic Bellamy/Clarke anywhere (close friends and even fuckbuddies is fine, but I'm not into them as the love of each other's lives).

Bellamy/Marcus: The mentor/mentee, working-through-self-hate/learning-not-to-hate-yourself with these two is strong. Precanon (Bellamy fucking Marcus to try to save Octavia?) is okay, but I'd especially love S2/S3 fic, be it weirdly tender hatesex around the Pike issue, trying to rebuild themselves and save Arkadia after S3, something surrounding ALIE, whatever. It can be casual or more romantic, and you can include background Abby/Marcus and Bellamy/Others or not as you like, but please no bashing canonical love interests.
Bryan/Nathan: I was so scared during the S3 finale that one of them would die, especially when they started waxing poetic about living a sweet life by a lake together, but they made it!! If they want to get that lakeside future somehow, that would be excellent, but also just backstory on them (we don't have a lot in canon--them together on the Ark? How Bryan deals with Nathan being sent to the ground?), more of them telling shitty ghost stories (loved that scene with Harper), more of them in action helping to save the world from nuclear meltdowns, pretty much wherever you want to go.
Jasper/Monty: I have shipped them pretty much since the first episode--childhood friends so closely intertwined is often a sweet spot for me, especially when they're tactile like these two are. Them watching the Earth from the Ark, them together trying to fight at Mount Weather, Monty trying to pull Jasper back from the brink of alcohol/ALIE's control, them post-S3 working together, them sleeping together after the S3 finale ("we'll be together" or however that line went was adorable), and more all welcome.

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KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)

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Kingsman is a big exuberant mess of a movie, and I love the absurd spy tropes, the 80s-heavy soundtrack, and the million myriad pornish fantasies it's all inspired. Reveling in that tropey spy goodness is highly encouraged, and yet also I am hoping to see some middle-aged dudes in love somehow. Precanon, postcanon, at work/on a mission, attempting to relax somewhere, working in Kingsman 2 spoilers we've seen, threesome with Eggsy, whatever! My only hard request is to ask that you not work in Eggsy/Harry without Merlin, as there's already quite a lot of them, and I love to see rarer configurations.

Harry/Merlin: My violent baes--two sexy spies being sexy together. I love casefic with them, but also them just hanging around being middle-aged dudes in love with each other, with a bit of a bite. Them as young recruits? Them and their dogs over the years? Their first time together after Harry's magic resurrection? Sex in the office? Basically anything. If you're really into a threesome with Eggsy, I love that too, but I'd ask for this that you write it as established Harry/Merlin working in Eggsy and not another way around.

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KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE RPF

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I adore these two, their on-screen chemistry, their beauty, and all the potential their many years in the acting world has for competency kink and/or long-term casual relationships. And yet, despite their slow progress toward actually being an onscreen couple in some film some day, I can find almost no fic at all for them in English. I would love any fic for them exploring their acting/them getting together/them fucking and/or being friends through the years/them blending their families/essentially anything at all. My only hard request is to either write in an AU where they're not married, to make them have happy, loving open/poly relationships with their current wives (my personal fave), or to make them amicably divorced; please no cheating/infidelity/bashing of the wives!

Colin/Mark: Okay, I have absolutely no chill at all for these two. You can see my ship manifesto, links to appearances of them, more prompts, etc in my Yuletide letter from last year, which I won't repeat here for the sake of space. In general, I am game for almost literally anything with them: "like a married couple" shit on set, any situation with them planning/blocking out scenes where their characters are lovers (be it implicit like with TTSS chemistry or in some future film where their characters have a canonical kiss/sex scene), them having a casual sex relationship, open relationships with their wives (or crazy four-way poly relationships, whatever!), AU without their current wives where they're in a relationship all along (since Fever Pitch or whenever you like) and become a low-key power couple in the British acting world, really and truly anything. They're just so comfortable and attractive together and I love that jocular, secure, mature vibe.

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - JANE AUSTEN

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I love Austen's humor, the biting satire, the wittiness, the vivid pictures of interpersonal life in a world different from ours now and yet in some ways still very much the same. With these relationships I particularly enjoy playing around slightly with social classes and gender, inasmuch as one can do in the Georgian period, as well as playing with the trappings of that world: the cravats, the boots, the large houses, the bustling families, the drama of families and wards, the repression and where it breaks, the potential for subtle rejection of the prevailing social norms in and around this vivid glimpse of another version of our world. Hidden queerness nonetheless delighted in? Bingley/Darcy being more than just good friends? Darcy/Wickham borderline hatesex at one time or another?
- Bingley/Darcy: I love the idea of Georgian/Regency friends trying to hide that they've been something more at some point, or just lowkey also being fuckbuddies on the side. How did they meet? Do they occasionally fuck (with permission) after they're married? All the cravat/clothing porn especially welcome.
- Darcy/Wickham: Ah, yes, the resentful/hatesex possibilities. Before things go sour, or after, either is fine. Grumping and bitching and somewhat rough sex welcome, as is drunken, slightly confused sex, or even tender sex that goes sour in retrospect (if set before Darcy Senior's death). Comforting each other after Darcy Senior's death?
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - ALL MEDIA TYPES

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One of the most realistic spy canons possible, a glorious autumnal ache, all beautiful muted colors and deception and emotional warfare and betrayal with none of the classic tropey flash. I love to have that as background for romps in the interpersonal world, be it the Greek tragedy of Bill/Jim, the mentor/mentee/office relationship of Bill/Peter, glorious cuckold-ish Bill/George angst, and the Holmes/Watson affair of George/Peter, especially along with the issues of betrayal, cuckolding, love despite better sense, or desperate loyalty in order to keep one's sanity in a murky amoral world.
- Bill/Jim: Almost literally anything, but I'd especially love earlier days, thick as thieves together working some case and fucking on the side, or attempting to do something non-spy-like (and failing?). I'm especially fond of seeing the potential ways in which Bill loves Jim (despite himself), even later when Bill is a committed mole, since that's more opague in canon.
- Bill/Peter: Peter's admiration for Bill in the precanon years has to have exploded in some office sex, yes? With Bill internally angsting over Jim, if it's post-Testify, or just something more easygoing? How does Peter see himself in relation to Bill's many other conquests?
- Bill/George: The cuckold porn, both literal and figurative, is here for the taking, and I love both versions of it. Were Bill and George ever actually close? Do they feel a weird bond/hate-affinity in being lovers of the same woman? Does Bill have a subsumed admiration for George, even later, he can't hide? And of course kinking on fucking each other, knowing full well the cuckolding going on even if it's never directly referenced, is A++.
- George/Peter: In some ways a version of Holmes and Watson, but also with differences in age and temperament I'd love to see explored. How do these two relate on longer cases involved? Do they fuck in a safe house somewhere? Does George gently take a desperate and off-the-rails Peter apart in order to calm him down? Peter having to calm George down in a rare explosive moment from George would also be amazing.
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