Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

Hi hi hi, Person of Interest Person!

I'm so excited about this exchange! PoI is my great love, and it is a delight when we all get together to make stuff that celebrates it.

First up: my standard letter disclaimer.

My letter is long, and in it I get very excited and throw a bazillion ideas against the wall. I am not vitally attached to any particular prompt. I just want there to be some potential inspiration available to you if you need it. Please feel free to create as loosely and freely as you want. I will enjoy what you create. Promise.


Things I love in POI fic (mostly cribbed from last year):
- happy endings. I'm mentioning it in specific, because the end of S5 gutted me.
- touch-starved John. John needs (and loves) hugs and hand stroking and face touching, though he would never admit it.
- Harold's many aliases, and stories where Harold and the team go undercover in the mundane world. We've met Harold the excellent concierge and Harold the drycleaner. How about Harold the piano tuner? Shaw the nanny? (John the nanny?! He'd be so good!)
- everyone lives! As I said, S5 was a rough ride for my poor heart.
- Divergent AUs. For want of a nail AUs. Paths taken or not taken, coincidences turning stories around, different approaches to the way characters meet, that sort of thing. What if Nathan survived the bomb, what if John and Kara decided not to kill each other but go on the run, what if Cole survived that shooting and he and Shaw both worked for Finch? That type of scenario is eternally catnip for me.
- All the recurrent characters. Character cameos, numbers coming back into play for various reasons.
- Pertinent flashbacks informing current storylines.
- Harold making tentative emotional connection with the Machine after all this time.
- Fusco and his journey towards being a shining paladin of justice. All the Fusco hero stories!!
- Supernatural stories or stories with mythological characters. Finch is a ghost! Shaw is a woodland elf! Fusco is a druid and talks to the fucking trees! Root is a genie in a bottle, baby! John is a beautiful unicorn pegasus.


Things I don't love in POI fic so much:
- Root and John's canon death. I have a pretty specific squick for grief and bereavement, especially loss of a partner. Please let everyone live in the end.
- I'm not the biggest fan of unresolved angst, so the bleak situation in S5 was kind of a downer for me. I need light at the end of the tunnel.
- Mundane AUs. For example, if your heart yearns to write a tattoo and flower shop au, please let the Machine be sending coded messages via people's ink, and Samaritan killing dissidents with posies.

Ratings: anything from General up to Explicit.

Porn likes: rough handling, desperation to get down to boning, tearing off clothes in the elevator, grinding, wall fucking, eye contact, eye fucking, hair pulling, biting, neck kissing, trembling with want, tenderness post all the fucking

Kink likes: D/s overtones, people comfortable with their kink identities, bondage, ropes, sensation play, orgasm control, impact play

DNW: Non-con (any level of consent up to dub con is fine, though), cross-gen, incest, teacher/student, death (especially partner death), terminal illness (especially cancer), angst without resolution, sad endings, embarrassment for embarrassment's sake, humiliation, animal harm or suffering

( Harold/Grace/John )
( John Reese/Lionel Fusco )
( Lionel Fusco/Everyone )
( Harold Finch & Genrika Zhirova  )
( Iris/Shaw )
( Nathan/John/Harold )
( Team Machine WWII AU )
( Harold/John )


Miscellanea

I've been specific about the kind of kink I like, but that doesn't mean you have to write kink. Similarly, I've requested mostly pairings, but I'm very flexible on what constitutes a pairing. If you're happier writing any of those requests on a friendship level, that suits me fine. I love the characters and reading about them interacting with each other, so the degree of intimacy is not the most important part for me. Tl;dr, write gen if you prefer, I can promise I'll love it.

I've written more about some prompts than others, but this is no indication of preference. I would be happy with fic for any of these prompts.

If anything here is causing confusion or you have questions about my likes and dislikes, I'm happy for you to contact the mods, or drop talkingtothesky - talking2thesky a message. She will help you out.

For stalking purposes, you can find me most places under st_aurafina. I'm st_aurafina and st-aurafina.

All my previous Dear Author letters are here: Dear Author.

Thank you, and I hope you have a great Exchange of Interest!

Title: Days Like This
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: Teen
Words: 2002
Characters/Pairings: John Reese/Lionel Fusco, Harold Finch
Warnings/Content: Just a Regular Day in the Life of a Cop
Notes: Written for livenudebigfoot in Chocolate Box 2020

Summary: Fusco knows it's going to be one of those days.


Also at the Archive

( Fusco wakes with his heart pounding )

Title: Stepping Out
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: Mature
Words: 1771
Characters/Pairings: Harold/Grace/John
Warnings/Content: Pining, Formalwear, Expanding Relationship
Notes: Written for talkingtothesky in Chocolate Box 2020

Summary: This is not jealousy. John is happy that Grace is back in Harold's life.

Also at the Archive

( It's not jealousy that he's feeling, John explains carefully to himself )

Title: Best Suited
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: Teen
Words: 756
Characters/Pairings: Zoe Morgan/John Reese, background Harold Finch/John Reese
Warnings/Content: Suit porn, D/s dynamics, cunnilingus
Notes: Written for sapphire2309 in Chocolate Box 2020

Summary: There are requirements to working a number with Zoe.

Also at the Archive

( Their number is a big deal in the charity fundraiser world, so the obvious person to call is Zoe )

Title: The Man in the (Summer Weight) Suit
Fandom:
Rating:
Words:
Characters/Pairings:
Warnings/Content: Time Travel, Character Invents Time Travel to Save Dead Loved One, Character’s Suspicious Actions Get Them In Trouble With The One(s) They’re Trying To Help, Unashamed Happy Ending, The Most Indulgent of Fix-Its
Notes: Written for talkingtothesky

Summary: The man in the suit is familiar, but John can't figure out what he wants.

Also at the Archive

( Read more... )

Title: The Witch and the Water
Fandom: A Discovery of Witches (TV)
Rating: General
Words: 5155
Characters/Pairings: Diana & Sophie, Diana/Matthew, Sophie/Nathaniel, Satu Järvinen
Warnings/Content: Roadtrips, Friendship, Magic, Pies
Notes: Written for colorofsaying for Yuletide 2019

Summary: Sophie's visions lead her and Diana on a road trip.

Also at the Archive

( Diana woke up to a soft conversation taking place above her head )

Title: Five Things They Don't Tell You When You're Dating a Werewolf
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: Teen
Words: 1955
Characters/Pairings: John Reese/Lionel Fusco
Notes: Written for livenudebigfoot for shipoween 2019
This fic was inspired/informed by a tumblr post by sholio reminding us how large wolves are:
While walking the dog yesterday, we found the tracks of a pack of wolves that had passed across the edge of our property.

Summary: There's a few things Lionel wishes he knew at the start of all this, but he thinks they're doing okay.

Also at the Archive

( Wolves are big. Werewolves are massive. )

Title: La Fille Mal Gardée
Fandom: The Exorcist (TV)
Rating: General
Words: 100
Notes: Written for hyacinthus for the July 2019 round of Multifandomdrabbelfest.

Summary: Kat wants to take Verity to the ballet; Verity isn't sure it's her thing.

Also at the Archive

( Guelph didn't have much nightlife )

Dear Chocolatier,

Thank you for creating for me this round!

I've requested some pairings, and I've offered some prompts that could be explicit but there's no obligation to go there if that's not your thing. I love gen, I love friendship stories, I won't be disappointed if there's no sex or no relationship in the fanwork you make. It's cool. I love the characters and the world building of all the fandoms I've requested here.

General likes: competence, plot, world building, visible and accepted queerness, people comfortable with their sexualities, supernatural elements, crossovers (see my list of fandoms at the Archive), AUs other than the mundane kind, teamwork, found family, domesticity, little scenes away from the big drama (but big drama is also great!), AUs where everyone gets to live, role reversal AUs (such as where Bruce Wayne is Superman and vice versa), divergent AUs

Porn likes: rough handling, desperation to get down to boning, tearing off clothes in the elevator, grinding, wall fucking, eye contact, eye fucking, hair pulling, biting, neck kissing, trembling with want, tenderness post all the fucking

Kink likes: D/s overtones, people comfortable with their kink identities, bondage, ropes, sensation play, orgasm control, impact play

Not favourite things but not dealbreakers: embarrassment, angst with no resolution, sad endings

DNW: Noncon, body fluids, partner death or grieving (except for Stumptown, I'm okay with grieving Dex and Naomi for some reason), teacher/student, cross gen or age difference, employer/employee, terminal illness

( Person of Interest, Stumptown, EOS 10, Moonbase Theta Out )


Miscellanea:

I have talked about some fandoms more than others, but that does not indicate a preference of any sort. I would be happy with fic or art from any of these fandoms.

I've used additional tags as suggestions, you're welcome to use prompts for different characters than I discussed.

My partner is lilacsigil or laraleftlane and she will be happy to sneakily answer any questions about my likes and dislikes. She will keep this secret from me, (possibly forever, because that's how she rolls.)

For stalking purposes, you can find me most places under st_aurafina. I'm st_aurafina and st-aurafina.

All my previous Dear Author letters are here: Dear Author.

Thank you so much for writing for me! I hope you have a sweet exchange!

Hey there, Shipoween author!

I ticked all the boxes in the sign-up form because I wasn't sure how to indicate that I don't mind if there's a theme or not. I don't mind! I like spooky things, I like seasonal things. And bonus southern hemisphere goodness: it's spring here! Let me give you a free pass to other, non-regulation seasonal tropes like hayfever and mild sunburn.

General likes: Plot, competence, sexy times, light kink or D/s dynamics. Characters having quiet moments. Visible queer presences, gender fluidity, people comfortable with their identities and living their best lives. Happy endings. Alternate universes of the non-mundane kind.

Horror likes: Spooky much more than gory, creepypasta, paranormal weirdness, people living normal lives with their weirdnesses, abilities like psychometry or talking to ghosts or lycanthropy, dimensional shifts, Lovecraftian monsters oozing into this dimension, Ouija boards and professional psychics, exorcisms, cryptozoology.

Seasonal likes: I'm taking this to mean tropey stuff like huddling for warmth or sharing umbrellas or dealing with wet dogs or raking up fallen leaves? I'm good with that. I'm good with all the tropey domestic goodness, to be honest, though being an Aussie, I have only peripheral experience with Halloween, and my knowledge of Thanksgiving extends only as far as popular media. Also, it's spring here, so if you want to write your faves dealing with hayfever or marvelling over new leaves on trees and blossom, please feel free.

Prefer not to see (but can take it if the story goes that way): Embarrassment, angst, sad endings, character death.

Concrete DNWs: Teacher/Student, cross-gen, pregnancy, animal suffering, body horror, partner death and grieving.

( Fandoms: X-Files/Mindhunter, Hellblazer/The Exorcist, Person of Interest, The Exorcist,  )

For stalking purposes, I'm st_aurafina and st-aurafina

Here's my Dear Author tag on my Dreamwidth with all my letters: Dear Author. My partner is lilacsigil / laraleftlane and she's willing to answer questions if you need them.

Thanks for writing! I hope you have a great Shipoween.