Fic in a Box 2024

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General Likes
DNWs
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
Crossover Fandom (Star Trek Edition)
Star Trek: Lower Decks
The Expanse (TV)
Stranger Things (TV 2016)

General Likes:

• What-ifs based on canon events (what if person did X instead of Y)/Canon Divergence
• Character studies
• Worldbuilding
• Meaningful platonic relationships
• Alternate Universes: magical realism, general magical shenanigans, cosmic horror, fae, scifi, space opera, historical, reincarnation, any of the aforementioned fused with the canon universe
• Teambuilding shenanigans, having to get along with (near/almost) strangers to achieve a goal
• Timeloops
• Hurt/comfort
• Hurt without comfort, whump
• The beauty/almost religiousness of suffering
• Epistolary/logs
• Essays/In-universe documents
• History
• Unreliable narrators
• Categorizing/archival, libraries, stories
• Catharsis
• Language/word choice (in terms of what the characters use in the story) being significant

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Art Likes:

• Vibrant colours
• Dark outlines
• Metallic accents
• Watercolours
• Art Nouveau
• Flowers
• Chiaroscuro
• Tarot
• Impressionist-style
• Overlayed/background schematics
• Favourite colours: Green, Purple

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Do Not Wants

• Noncon
• Omegaverse
• Pregnancy
• High School AU

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)

I've watched the full two seasons. My favourites eps are Children of the Comet, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Those Old Scientists. For Those Old Scientists and other crossover prompts, check the Crossover Fandom section. I also really enjoyed Subspace Rhapsody, so if you want to write a missing scene/song for it (for any of the following characters/rels/prompts) please be my guest!

Solo: Crew of the Starship Enterprise (ST: SNW):
• I love the show's almost found family-like dynamic, so any sort of generic Ensemble episode-style fic would be fun. A new planet, away missions, Jefferies tubes, mysterious pollen, any and all trekky tropes welcome!

Solo: La'an Noonien-Singh (ST: SNW):
• My favourite character of the bunch. I just want her to have a good time doing her job, considering that's not smth she gets to do very often because of her past... and s2e3. Preference for Hurt/Comfort or just something that ends in Fluff and happiness (it can be angsty on the way though).
• If you want to mix this in the the WB: Time Travel protocols prompt, I'd be happy no matter what you do.
• I'd also be interested in something that looks at her POV/thoughts during the season two finale.
• Also her attempts at being vulnerable with the crew after Subspace Rhapsody.

Solo: Sam Kirk (ST: SNW):
• He's a funny little guy :3c I just want to see more about him, his childhood, his goals, his (lack of) ambitions, his daily routine on the Enterprise.
• Maybe some of his history with Pike? Since Pike chose him for the Enterprise's crew.
• Also if you want to play with TOS canon go for it. Maybe the small changes from the time travelling as seen in Tomorrow and Tomorrow change his future? (On the other hand, feel free to go in the other direction: is Sam doomed to always die, no matter the timeline?)

Sam Kirk & James Kirk (ST: SNW):
• Their relationship is so interesting to me. They both care about each other but also don't seem to keep in touch particularly well.
• Anything about their childhood, I am chomping at the bit for things about their childhood.
• The implication in s02e07 that their father approves of Jim's career ambitions but not of Sam's has been living rent free in my head as well.
• Also if you want to play with TOS canon go for it. (Tarsus IV??) Maybe the small changes from the time travelling as seen in Tomorrow and Tomorrow change his future? (On the other hand, feel free to go in the other direction: is Sam doomed to always die, no matter the timeline?)

Christopher Pike/Marie Batel (ST: SNW):
• I'd just really like more than what the show gave us. A happy getaway for these two would be lovely.

Christine Chapel/Erica Ortegas (ST: SNW):
• I think they have an excellent friendship and chemistry together. I'd love to see their history together, or even just a casual hookup between them (that maybe turns into something more?)

Christine Chapel/Erica Ortegas/Nyota Uhura (ST: SNW):
• Same as above, but make it a full girls' night!!

WB: Daily Life On The Starship Enterprise (ST: SNW):
• Give me the days off, the fun times, the normals of being on an abnormal ship!! Any vignettes welcome, even the especially mundane.

WB: Klingon Pop Music (ST: SNW), WB: Impact of the Musical Anomaly Elsewhere in the Galaxy (ST: SNW):
• I would love more Subspace Rhapsody-related stuff, especially when it comes to all the stuff that wasn’t shown on screen.

WB: News and pop culture about Constitution-class ships and their crews (ST: SNW):
• Give me all of the fun in-universe media surrounding Starfleet. Are there fan pages, fanblogs, professional magazines dedicated to it? In-universe RPF and exchanges??

WB: The Ever Expanding Replicator Recipes And Formulas And Regulations Thereof (ST: SNW):
• I want shenanigans and noodle incidents (with literal noodles) galore!
• People getting into petty fights over recipe variations, the definition of a sandwich/noodles/etc.

WB: Laws and ethics of genetic modification (ST: SNW), WB: First Contact protocols (ST: SNW), WB: Time Travel protocols (ST: SNW), WB: Starfleet regulations about romantic relationships (ST: SNW), WB: Illyrian Environmental Ethics & Customs (ST: SNW):
• I love all the rules-lawyering, loopholes that get brought up in regards to stuff like the Prime Directive.
• Also any documentation, especially in progress with the notes on the side and so on.

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Crossover Fandom (Star Trek Edition)

I enjoyed Those Old Scientists so much, I went and watched all of Lower Decks. Anything that takes places within that episode, or like an extended version of that episode, would make me super happy. Or maybe they keep running into each other with time travel shenanigans.

Brad Boimler (ST: LWD)/Spock (ST: SNW), Brad Boimler (ST: LWD) & Spock (ST: SNW):
• Young Spock is hot and Boimler is definitely flustered about it. Seeing them interact in the episode is hilarious and I'd love to see more of that. Seeing them awkwardly hook up would be amazing.

Brad Boimler (ST: LWD) & Christopher Pike (ST: SNW):
• Boimler's hero worship during the episode was so cute. I'd love to see more of their interactions, or where/when Boimler became obsessed with Pike. Also would be here for more awkward hookups.

Beckett Mariner (ST: LWD)/Nyota Uhura (ST: SNW), Beckett Mariner (ST: LWD) & Erica Ortegas (ST: SNW) & Nyota Uhura (ST: SNW):
• Mariner seems just as infatuated with Uhura as Boimler is with Spock, so awkward hookup #3 please!
• Alternately Mariner's dynamic with Ortegas is great and I'd love to see them roping Uhura into their shenanigans.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

Brad Boimler & Beckett Mariner & Sam Rutherford & D'Vana Tendi (Lower Decks):
• This dynamic really feels like the heart of the show. We usually see Boimler & Mariner and Rutherford & Tendi grouped together, but please feel free to break from that.
• My favourite type of shenanigans are the episodic-style ones where everything about it goes off the rails. Away mission going wrong, diplomatic meetings getting out of hand, etc.

WB: Any, WB: The Cerritos, WB: Starfleet customs about Death & Resurrection, WB: Federation Pop Culture, WB: Paperwork involved with transporter duplicates & similar events, WB: Second-contact missions after another crew has made first contact (Lower Decks):
• Due to the nature of Lower Decks, we get shown a lot of stuff and never explained it, so please feel free to go wild trying to explain it. I especially love the Koala gag tbh.

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The Expanse (TV)

Solo: Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse (TV)), Solo: Bobby Draper (The Expanse (TV)), Solo: Amos Burton (The Expanse (TV)), Solo: Camina Drummer (The Expanse TV):
• I am just fascinated by all of the above and their personalities, I could read a thousand character studies about them.

Jim Holden & Joe Miller, Camina Drummer & Naomi Nagata, Bobbie Draper & Alex Kamal, Chrisjen Avasarala & Bobbie Draper (The Expanse (TV)):
• All of these relationships are integral to the plots of the show and I'd love to see more of them. Especially backstories, missing scenes, bonding and so on.

Amos Burton/Jim Holden/Alex Kamal/Naomi Nagata, Amos Burton/Alex Kamal (The Expanse TV)):
• I am so here for the Rocinante crew having a casual thing going on. It's space, it's not that big of a ship and sometimes it's better to go it together etc.
• I'm also kind of fascinated by the differences in Amos's and Alex's personalities and how that would work out if they were in a relationship.

WB: Martian Congressional Navy, WB: Lang Belta, WB: Protomolecule, WB: Belter Tattoos, WB: Any (The Expanse (TV)):
• The Belter language fascinates me, I would love getting fic or meta about that. I also love the designs of Belter Tattoos. But also fleshing out any of the cultures and events we see on screen would get me excited. Is Mars' Terraforming still going? How did the full-fledged UN we see in series get set up?

A note about Mediums: I'd love any of the mediums requested in the tags. Since the show is very politics heavy, I would be interested in seeing propaganda posters for the variety of different factions that exist in-universe (OPA, UN, Mars etc). The dark Remember The Cant graffiti from the first season of the show has really stayed with me. I'd also love any of the requested art mediums to feature the characters with heavy lining/outlines.

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Stranger Things (TV 2016)

Although I do love AUs, for this fandom I would prefer in canon universe just because canon is interesting to play with.

Solo: Jonathan Byer, Jonathan Byers & Eleven, Jonathan Byers & Will Byers (Stranger Things):
• I found him all too relatable and interesting in S1, but in later seasons I feel like he doesn't get so much careful attention. How did his parents separating affect him? How did he develop his love of photography?
• One of my favourite things that the show hasn't gone into as much recently is the sibling relationship between Will and Jonathan. Obviously they drifted between s3 and s4, but I'd love to see a sort of introspection/breakdown of it.
• I'd also be interested to see if one developed with Eleven during that break as well, just moments that the show doesn't really have time to show us.

Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington:
• I know there isn't really much of a canon moment for this pairing, I just really love the contrasting parallels these two represent: poor older brother from an unhappy family life and a rich only child with a stable family life, loner and a former popular kid, etc. I'm just forever enamoured with the possibility of their dynamic, especially in the high-tension moments that the show can produce, but also the quiet ones that follow after.
• The show setting provides a lot of fodder for possible hurt and I'm most specially in love with the cosmic horror side of things, although physical hurt is still fun. Steve's streak of always getting beat up definitely makes him in my eyes the most likely to be hurt of the two of them, but I also think it would make him a great comforter, so pick whichever one you prefer.

Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler:
• I've loved this pairing since the s1 finale, so honestly you could write anything for it and I'd be happy.
• I'd love to see a post-s4 getting back together, as messy as that can be.

Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler:
• I love their dynamic and interactions together, it's fascinating to me. I'd love fic about them getting together during s4 and the messiness that comes with it.

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