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[suburban_sun]

Dear Candy Hearts Writer,

Thanks for signing up for this exchange! I'm looking forward to reading whatever you write! (And for anyone else stumbling across this letter, know that treats are always welcomed.)

Below you’ll find the following:

• My Requests
• About Me
• General Likes/Kinks
• General DNWs
• Fandom Specifics/Prompts

My Requests:

• You Should Be So Lucky - Mark Bailey/Eddie O'Leary
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson
• Mad Men - Peggy Olson/Stan Rizzo

I’ve tried to list a couple of prompts for each fandom, but please don’t feel like you have to stick to those. If the rest of my letter gives you another idea you’d like to write, I’d love to read it!


A little about me to start:

My AO3 name is SuburbanSun; you can also check out my Tumblr if you’d like: unbreakablejemmasimmons.


General Likes/Kinks:

Fave shippy tropes:

• Rivals/enemies to lovers
• Secret dating/sneaking around
• FWBs that turns into something more
• Fake dating
• Mutual pining
• “The love is requited they’re just idiots"/idiots to lovers
• Truth serum/in vino veritas

Fave gen tropes and story elements:

• Found family dynamics
• Competency/mutual respect
• Shenanigans/heists
• Time travel
• Time loops

Subversions of tropes are also great!

Most of my prompts tend toward canon universe ideas because that’s just what I tend to think of first, but I enjoy AUs too, and here are a few types that I’m always a sucker for:

• Secret Service/bodyguard/witness protection AUs
• Private eye AUs
• Politics AUs (like my requested characters running for office or working on a campaign)
• Vampire slayer AUs
• Food truck or food critic AUs

Epistolary style, either as a small part of a story or as all of it, is always fun to me, if it’s up your alley. Phone calls! Emails! Letters! Post-It notes! I love it all!

General DNWs:

DNWs: Superangst and sad endings. Babyfic/kidfic/pregnancy. First person POV (except in epistolary elements).

Fandom Specifics/Prompts:


You Should Be So Lucky
Mark Bailey/Eddie O'Leary

This book! I just loved it. The slow burn of the romance between Mark and Eddie was so beautiful, and I loved everything about the setting-- old timey journalism! Baseball! I really really loved the dynamic of Mark being a bit in denial about his feelings, Eddie's true feelings, their relationship, to protect himself, while Eddie was just so openly on board. And like, I just love this bit so much:

"I love you," Eddie says.

"You're a nightmare," Mark returns, in precisely the same tone of voice.

I've also read and loved We Could Be So Good, so cameos from Andy or Nick (or any other characters from either book) are welcome! And for this one, I'd love something set in the canon universe more than an AU.

Prompts:

• What was Eddie thinking early on, like when he first met Mark? What was going on in his head?
• More of Eddie and Mark sneaking around during the long stretch of away games! 
• I really love a bickery, bantery exchange, so anything that takes place when that was the dynamic between the two of them is more than welcome. 

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The Falcon & the Winter Soldier
Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson

I always enjoyed their dynamic, but these two didn't take over my heart and soul until a couple eps into The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, when I thought to myself, "huh, I wonder if people ship them." I looked up fic and almost immediately, I shipped them too. I really love how Bucky was completely on board with Steve handing off the shield to Sam, no doubts whatsoever, because he knows how truly good Sam Wilson is. I think at this point in their relationship Bucky is Sam Wilson's #1 fan and I love it.

Prompts:

• More of Sam and Bucky working on the boat!
• Maybe Bucky moves down to Delacroix, gets a little place near the Wilsons', but it's not like that means he has feelings for Sam or anything. No, of course not. They're partners, that's all.
• What's going on with the Avengers these days? Is Sam the new official or unofficial team leader? Is Bucky an actual Avenger, and if so, how do his and Sam's feelings for each other (whether they realize that's what they are or not) get in the way of day-to-day Avengers stuff? Cameos from other Marvel characters are welcomed!
• Sam, Bucky and Avengers thirst tweets.
• Sam and Bucky inadvertently stumbling across one another on a dating app. 

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Mad Men
Peggy Olson/Stan Rizzo

I love and miss this show so much. It was so smart and made me feel so many things, and in truth, Peggy Olson is one of my favorite characters in all of fiction. I know I request this show and these characters every year, but I truly always want more of these two!

Peggy/Stan is such a great ship, to me, and one I was on board with from the very beginning. Omitting his boorish behavior early on, once they established a rapport, they were such equals, and he seemed to respect her so much, and vice versa. They got on each other’s nerves and knew how to push each other’s buttons, but that’s just because they connected so well and really got each other.

 

Prompts:

• I adore the time period where they’re basically phone buddies. Maybe an AU where they get together earlier in the series, during that time? How their phone conversations evolve from discussing work to discussing everything to falling for each other (or realizing they already had)? Phone sex (or getting ever-so-close to it before realizing they’re in the office and it’s inappropriate) is a-okay here too.
• In the same vein, epistolary fic could be really fun to play around with here. Maybe a story told through a series of interoffice memos, messages, notes in the margins of copy pitches and along the edges of spec art?
• They’re working through the weekend on some pitch or another, holed up in the office with a stash of booze and half-empty cartons of Chinese food, but they can’t focus on work ALL night, can they?

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So, that’s that! I really hope you enjoy the whole process this Candy Hearts season, and thanks for participating! Happy writing!