Dear Heavy Artillery Exchange Writer

[partypaprika]

 Dear Heavy Artillery Exchange Writer,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I am super excited to read what you have to write!

I’ve included some thoughts below on my preferences. Please don’t stress too much if you’re inspired to write something else (although I’d prefer if you didn’t delve into my DNWs). I’ve given some specific prompts, but feel to take a general theme from my general likes if that’s more inspiring!

 I'm not active on LJ/Dreamwidth anymore, although you're welcome to poke around here. I'm slightly active on tumblr and you can also check out my pinboard. I'm on ao3 as partypaprika.

 

General likes:

-Hurt/comfort
-Conflict
-Slow burn
-Pining and UST
-Sacrifices, especially if characters are making big sacrifices on behalf of someone that they care deeply about
-Angst (ideally ending in a HEA)
-Having dysfunctional relationships
-Enemies being forced (either directly or by circumstances) to work together
-Enemies to lovers
-Opposites attracting or coming to understand each other
-Marriages of convenience, fake dating, etc.
-People being thrown together in wildly unexpected situations
-Magical realism and magical powers
-Time travel, time loops, time do-overs etc.
-Modern royalty AUs
-Secret identities and identity porn
-Settings that have a sense of mystery: cemeteries, forests, abandoned temples etc.
-Epistolary and non-linear storytelling
-Canon divergence
-Mythology
-Hidden displays of affection

 

DNWs:

-Major character death
-Noncon
-Incest
-Painplay
-Torture
-Humiliation kink
-A/b/o
-Dom/sub
-Mpreg
-Knotting
-Coffee shop AUs
-High school AUs
-Unrequested poly ships

Band of Brothers - Joseph Liebgott/David Kenyon Webster

I really like the enemies to lovers trope and I like that there's a fair amount of antagonism even when they seem to be getting along. I like that they come from such different places in so many ways and would love to see that explored. I am also all about the conflicted attraction and internal conflict that I think Joe really feels about David.

I would love to see what happens to them after the war--how do they reconnect afterwards? Did they maybe hook up at some point while serving and tacitly agree to never speak of it again, but then they both realize when they're not around each other that they miss each other? I am all about the pining!

Or does something happen during the war that makes it clear to one of them that the other has feelings and that person has to then grapple with it?

I would also be into seeing David/Joe in an AU setting--is David royalty and Joe is just eye-rolling when they meet for work (or some other reason)? Do they meet back in the wild west? Maybe they live in today's world--how do they meet and connect? Maybe they're [insert thieves/spies/librarians etc.] with a history of working against each other and they have to team up? 


Generation Kill - Brad Colbert/Nate Fick

There's so much that I could say about these two. I love complete and utter trust between the two of them, in one of the highest stress situations imaginable. They're always on the same page and they always have each other's back, no matter what. It gets me right in heart, so much. SO MUCH. I would love to see the added element of attraction added--maybe it's completely the same, a seamless extension of that mutual understanding, or maybe they both have to now struggle with this additional element and the fear that it will screw up their current relationship.

I would also love to see Brad and Nate getting together after their return from Iraq, either pre or post the repeal of DADT. I feel like there's a lot of opportunity for pining here--maybe one of them thinking that the other doesn't reciprocating, being concerned about professional repercussions or trying to protect the other...(so many opportunities!). You could also have them going their separate ways after returning from Iraq and then reconnecting, years down the road.

Do they have to marry each other to save one of their political careers or do they have to marry because one of them has been compromised in some other way? Has one of them been falsely accused of treason and now the other has to rescue them and clear their name? Does one of them have to protect the other from reputational injury, career injury or actual injury? I am there for all of it!

On the lighter side, I would definitely love to see one of the guys selflessly setting up the other on date after date even while pining the entire time.



I am also completely into a Band of Brothers/Generation Kill AU of any type. I would love to see David, Joe, Brad and Nate all interacting! Maybe they all end up in the same unit in a modern war or maybe they're all in WWII together. It could also be an AU completely unrelated to warfare--maybe they all work together or connect in a different way? You could also split the difference and do a 1970s AU...

 

Thank you so much again!