Fic In A Box 2025 Letter
Aug. 22nd, 2025 07:38 pmHello!
I go byBrachylagus_fandom over on AO3, and I'm delighted to see what you have in store for me! I've listed some general likes for the medium opt-ins I've requested across fandoms as well as prompts for the fandoms I've requested, but if inspiration takes you in another direction, go for it; I love all of these canons, and I'm sure I'll love what you create for them. Treats are welcome and enabled!
DNWs
- smut
- gore (canon-typical violence is fine, but please keep injury descriptions minimally graphic)
- change of setting AUs (e.g., coffee shop/pirate/high school AU - canon divergence AUs fine, as are AUs that add elements to the canon setting like daemon or soulmate AUs)
Likes
- Worldbuilding - how does this world tick, and what happens if you take the implications of some details very seriously?
- Canon-divergent AUs and role swaps
- Characters being competent in their area of expertise
- Crack, especially crack treated seriously
- Outsider POV, unreliable narrator, contradicting narrators
- Big stylistic choices - second-person or other non standard POVs, epistolary, nonlinear storytelling, etc
- Mystery/intrigue
- Missing scenes, little details of canon, slice of life
- Hurt/comfort - I love a good whumping, either physical or emotional (or both! I love physical whump lowering a character's mental barriers), but only if there's some sort of comforting relief/resolution after.
Medium-Specific Likes
Where "Any" was selected, Any truly does mean any; I love all varieties of art/poetry/in-universe works that I run across, and would be extremely pleased with "out there" ideas based on them.
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart: I love seeing different styles of art and how other people visualize things! In terms of specific likes, I tend to prefer stylized (e.g., art deco, medieval-style paintings) over realistic art styles and pieces with a clear sense of ~aesthetic, though I don't have strong preferences for what that aesthetic is; it's kind of like big stylistic choices in prose for me.
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Illustrated Fic: A combo of two things I enjoy quite a lot! I love the way that illustrations can help establish a tone of a fic, or really bring a scene to life, and the way the text of a fic can engage with the images that accompany it.
- Medium Opt-In: Poetry - Any Nominated Style of Poetry: I love poetry because it can establish very specific moods with very few words. No preference for metered vs free verse; I really like when very structured styles (e.g., villanelle) use that rigidity to full effect but also appreciate how less structured formats allow ideas and language to flow more freely. I tend to prefer people over nature in terms of subjects. I'm particularly interested in in-universe poems (e.g., something a character wrote or a song they grew up singing).
- Medium Opt-In: Any - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work: a great medium for worldbuilding-focused works! I love all forms of these, especially documents that peer into areas of canon that are more in the background, or that cast a different perspective on the events we see in canon (like a police report for the victims of a Leverage heist). I'm interpreting "that fit the canon setting" broadly; even though I've requested social media tags separately for Leverage and 39 Clues because I think those fandoms would be well suited to them, I wouldn't be opposed to it for another fandom like Hunger Games.
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Meta Infographic, Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any Type of Essay: I really enjoy seeing how these worlds work, and I think it can be just as interesting to take that from an out-of-universe perspective as a within-universe perspective. The only thing I look for when reading meta and meta-adjacent works is earnestness; I am more than happy to hear about a pedantic nitpicking of legal defenses within Murdle, or the deep ecological meaning of One Piece's oceanography, or a reading that is definitely not intended by canon but produces a fascinating reframing a la Darth Jar Jar, so long as you're invested in it.
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic, Medium Opt-In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic, Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic, Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Gift Fic (with author's permission), Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Gifts In This Fandom (W/ Permission!), Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom: Honestly, I'm just curious to see how other people interact with/interpret things I've created. Any works under my name on AO3 are fair game; any art or fic opt ins that apply to your idea are fine. I'm also open to remixes/recursives/et cetera in fandoms I didn't request!
- Medium Opt-In: Art - A Softer World style art, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - A Softer World style panels: I think that the A Softer World format is great for a gut punch, and so many of these comics are so blorbo-coded it's not even funny. I'm totally down for something in the same three-panel style but with your own text as well, or text from one of the ASW spinoffs.
- Medium Opt-In: Instructions - TTRPG rules, Medium Opt-In: Instructions - TTRPG Supplement: I'd love to see how any of these canons work as a TTRPG! I'm most familiar with PBtA systems, which I think do some really interesting things with having narrative elements being baked into classes, but I've also played DnD, and I'm more than willing to try a new system and see how it interacts with one of these canons. I really enjoy when narrative and mechanics interact in messy ways, as well as when things have unexpected-but-makes-sense-deep-down benefits/drawbacks.
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Logic Grid Puzzle, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Murdle: The logic needed to solve them, the way you get little bits and pieces before everything becomes clear all at once. I think this can be a fun way to do slice of life; A does these things with these parameters, but must remember which is which. For murdle, I love the backstory behind it, and the reaction of the suspect at the end! (I also really love the snarky