SHIPOWEEN EXCHANGE 2020
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Shipoween Exchange Letter
General likes:
I love long fic but I'd also appreciate any kind of 'one scene of a larger plot' or setup scene, because these are all concepts that tend to sprawl!
- Canon divergences – characters making different decisions at critical points, small changes butterflying to bigger ones, people reacting to slightly changed circumstances, characters meeting earlier or differently.
- Time Travel – all kinds! Time Loops, Groundhog day, Peggy Sue, physical time travel, accidental or purposeful.
- Fix its – any kind of story that leads to characters being better off or happier (or more alive) than unfortunate canon events left them. Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies AU’s.
- Arranged marriage / marriage of convenience tropes, matchmaking services, political alliances.
- Mission fic/Casefic is great but so are Slice of Life fics and Outside POVs (the more bewildered and misunderstanding the better). Hurt/comfort is great, Canadian Shack/hypothermia/huddling’n’cuddling for warmth fic is great, secret identity tropes are great, found family and team-as-family tropes are excellent. Characters having positive and supportive (and snarky) friendships is amazing.
Shipping: my shipping bar is so low. I’m happy to read subtext into anything – if I’ve prompted a / relationship, I’ll read it that way, even if nothing overtly shippy happens. And, honestly, I would also be happy with a & reading (in a lot of places, I have both / and &); I just want characters to interact, or think about it other, or exist relative to each other!
DNW: Non-con (including rape roleplay and rape kink), poly/threesomes, tragic endings, Bad Guys Win,
陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
No Theme
I'm happy to have canon-typical spookiness – or worldbuilding on canon implications that unpacks them (and would encourage that!) - but I'm not here specifically for horror.
Catch me shouting about all my Yunmeng Sect feelings. I'd love to see the day-to-day of the Yunmeng sect, either before, during or after canon – what does a regular day look like? What does a regular nighthunt look like? Re-establishing a sect is a lot of work and Jiang Cheng went from 'wiped out to the last man' to 'if you mess with anyone don't mess with Yunmeng Jiang' – how was that process?
- Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Jiāng Yànlí (The Untamed) – I'd love to see these two at the start of the Sunshot Campaign while they're trying to re-establish the sect and look for their missing brother. Or after the war when things are a little bet and seem so hopeful! Or planning together on how to clear Wei Wuxian's name and how to bring Yanli to visit him in her wedding clothes… Or just a 'Yanli lives' AU and them coping the timeskip together.
- Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Jiāng Yànlí & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed) – The full three siblings! I'd love an AU where nothing terrible happened and they all got to grow up together (or, yknow, nothing terrible after the war!). Or an AU where they manage to coordinate Wen Ning retrieval? The family that slays together stays together, and they're always at their best when they're working together. Or time travel where the goal of one is, always first and foremost, to save the other two?
- Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán (The Untamed) - Jin Ling growing up at Lotus Pier! Jiang Cheng trying frantically to smother him in love while having actually zero skills to do so! Did Zidian ever get used as a kiddie leash on a rambunctious toddler? Archery lessons? Swimming lessons? How-to-use-Zidian lessons? How does Jin Ling get on with the other Yunmeng Jiang disciples?
- Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Original Jiāng Sect Disciples (The Untamed) – Did any of the original Yunmeng Jiang disciples survive? Where did the new recruits come from – rogue cultivators? Other sects destroyed by the Wens? People willing to pick up a sword and fight for the prestige of being a cultivator? How did he go about recruiting? What opinions do they have about… uh… everything?
- Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed) – I would read one million reconciliation fics. They love each other so much and yet just fail to communicate. Or Golden Core Reveal AU's or time travel fix its where they don't, in fact, fall apart so badly.
- Jinzhu & Yinzhu (The Untamed) – These two are so fascinating! Madam Yu's highly respected personal servants who are always with her but absolutely do not occupy the weird semi-family space that Wei Wuxian does.
- Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Niè Huáisāng (The Untamed) – Their Cloud Recesses dynamic is great with Nie Huaisang totally unbothered by the whole angry-growly-thing, and Wei Wuxian hiding behind him to get away from Jiang Cheng is consistently funny. Jiang Cheng always rolls his eyes and yet goes along with shenanigans. There's also great potential for time skip and post canon where there's secrets and the whole revenge plot.
- Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed) – They love each other so much and they went through so much trauma together.
- Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Wen Qing (The Untamed) – There's so much could-have-been potential with them. They both care about the same things and that's what kept them apart because those things were on opposite sides. But if they had managed to align their responsibilities and families to protect them both they would have been so great. I'd love any AU where that manages to happen – does she agree during the Sunshot Campaign if he can also save her brother? Do they encounter each other after? Does something else go down in a way that changes events?
- Nie Huaisang & Nie Mingjue (The Untamed),
- Niè Huáisāng & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (The Untamed) - All my Nie family feels! I would love any type of AU where the resentful energy sabre problem is 'solved' – Nie Huaisang derailing the Burial Mounds arc because he really wants his genius inventor necromancer friend to focus on this, thanks. Or just anything between the Nie brothers! They got so cruelly cut short and went to such massive lengths for each other.
人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Note: I’m happy to have canon pairings here simply handwaved away with as much or little explanation as you like (including character death).
Medium: Fanfiction
No Theme
- Liǔ Qīnggē/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū (SVSSS) – LQG is super reliable and I love how easily he flips to being SQQ's defence and kicks down walls to come to his rescue. I'd love any kind of mission or case fic pre-SQQ's death where they get to fight monsters or deal with the weird PIDW worldbuilding and ecology.
- Shàng Qīnghuá & Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū (SVSSS)
- Shàng Qīnghuá/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū (SVSSS) – I love these millennials having to deal with the weirdness of the world they're in and how they just revert to totally different personalities with each other. They would have horrible ideas about the world and the weird magic powers they now have an no one with better sense to tell them not to do it.
Crossover Fandom
Medium: Fanfiction
Medium: Fanart
No Theme
- Tsunade (Naruto) & Wen Qing (The Untamed) – Tsunade did go on a multi-year tour of everywhere-not-Konoha! She could totally have wandered into magic-China instead of magic-Japan. And while she isn't exactly eager to meddle in other people's business at this point in her life, she doesn't have any qualms about punching down walls, either. Or maybe Wen Qing and co flee magic-China entirely, like JGY was intending to do. Or maybe there's a semi-regular magic-doctor conference where they meet a few times.