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Hello! (and apologies for not filling this out sooner)
If you've got an idea that you really love, please feel free to write and not bother reading through this. If not, though, hopefully something in here will be helpful.
Generally, I like: queer communities, hurt/comfort (especially emotional), slice of life/day in the life, friendships, AUs, magic, happy endings, friends with benefits, people behaving like adults and talking to each other (rather than hoping the other person will read their mind/their weird hints), created families, kid fic, cats, bisexual characters, established relationships.
I don't like/don't want to read: I'm only gay for you, we're the only gay couple we know/that seems to exist in this universe, coming out stories, women needing to be rescued by the men, UST, problems that could be solved by talking to each other, meddling friends (we know you love each other, you just don't see it, kind of stuff), horror.
Fandom specifically...
Inception
Inception is tragically lacking in female characters, especially with Ariadne being new to the whole thing, so more older women in the field, acting as mentors to someone like Phillipa would be awesome. I'd love to see grown-up Phillipa, particularly if you made her some form of queer (massive crush on Ariadne, maybe?) She seems old enough in the movie to understand what's happening to a degree - how does that affect her when she's growing up? How does she feel about Miles/Dom/her brother/her mom? Does she create her mom in her dreams to talk to her?
I like Miles because he's the older mentor figure, guiding the others and his students. I'd like to see more of that - who is he outside of Dom Cobb? How did he end up where he is? Show me something not connected to the movie plot - his office hours, recruiting other students, his contacts in dream-sharing, him getting tapped to help out with something. Is he a good guy, bad guy, shady guy? I'd prefer anything with him not focus on his family, unless it's his grandkids.
Avengers
My preference for Avengers stories is for SHIELD to be the focus, rather than the superhero stuff (I know, why get into a superhero fandom in that case?) I love the bizarre stuff people come up with in fic, like giant creatures, or surprise magic - the whole, "well, this is random, but it's our job, so lets get on with it" - so if you want to work some of that in, please do.
I ship Maria and Natasha pretty hard, but I could totally see Maria/Pepper if you wanted to go the femslash route. I like the idea of Pepper and Tony having an open relationship in a way that's happy not angsty - like, they talked it out, and they have guidelines and it works, no-one is secretly jealous or feeling unloved or whatever. Fury, I love for his dry sense of humour, and his faith in the Avengers. I don't like Fury being written as conniving for the sake of it - like, keeping Coulson's non-death secret just because. I like that he might find certain people trying, but he ultimately likes and respects them all. I love him and Maria as director and deputy - if you wanted to write him as actively training her up to take over from him, I would not say no at all - and that she questions him and he answers her.
Pepper, I love because she's shown as competent, and emotional, she stands up for herself, she takes charge, and she's gorgeous. I'd love to see her and Maria (and Fury if you wanted) de-aged to teenagers and running around causing havoc, if you felt like going that way.
Stargate Atlantis
I've sort of drifted out of this fandom lately, but it's still the fandom of my heart. Please, though, don't strand Atlantis with no contact from Earth (unless you're doing a season 1 AU), or write them into an antagonistic relationship with Earth/the SGC.
That said, one of my favourite things about the show and fandom was how people navigated having lives they'd left behind on Earth, especially for the characters who don't get enough development for us to know about that. Does Alicia have an ex-girlfriend she left behind? How did Major Teldy end up on the mission? I always imagine Alison Porter having a dog on Earth for some reasons, and Dusty having a sprawling family of brothers.
Larrin seems to get a lot of dislike/hate from fandom, but I love her and think she's awesome, so please don't make her the bad guy. Though I also love that she's not a straight up good guy either - she's morally grey, but it's for the good of her people, I think.
Nancy, we only ever saw in relationship to John, really, but I'd love to see more of her outside of this. Her job, her relationships, her hobbies, her good deeds. Does she stay in touch with David after the divorce? What's her own family like?
If you've got an idea that you really love, please feel free to write and not bother reading through this. If not, though, hopefully something in here will be helpful.
Generally, I like: queer communities, hurt/comfort (especially emotional), slice of life/day in the life, friendships, AUs, magic, happy endings, friends with benefits, people behaving like adults and talking to each other (rather than hoping the other person will read their mind/their weird hints), created families, kid fic, cats, bisexual characters, established relationships.
I don't like/don't want to read: I'm only gay for you, we're the only gay couple we know/that seems to exist in this universe, coming out stories, women needing to be rescued by the men, UST, problems that could be solved by talking to each other, meddling friends (we know you love each other, you just don't see it, kind of stuff), horror.
Fandom specifically...
Inception
Inception is tragically lacking in female characters, especially with Ariadne being new to the whole thing, so more older women in the field, acting as mentors to someone like Phillipa would be awesome. I'd love to see grown-up Phillipa, particularly if you made her some form of queer (massive crush on Ariadne, maybe?) She seems old enough in the movie to understand what's happening to a degree - how does that affect her when she's growing up? How does she feel about Miles/Dom/her brother/her mom? Does she create her mom in her dreams to talk to her?
I like Miles because he's the older mentor figure, guiding the others and his students. I'd like to see more of that - who is he outside of Dom Cobb? How did he end up where he is? Show me something not connected to the movie plot - his office hours, recruiting other students, his contacts in dream-sharing, him getting tapped to help out with something. Is he a good guy, bad guy, shady guy? I'd prefer anything with him not focus on his family, unless it's his grandkids.
Avengers
My preference for Avengers stories is for SHIELD to be the focus, rather than the superhero stuff (I know, why get into a superhero fandom in that case?) I love the bizarre stuff people come up with in fic, like giant creatures, or surprise magic - the whole, "well, this is random, but it's our job, so lets get on with it" - so if you want to work some of that in, please do.
I ship Maria and Natasha pretty hard, but I could totally see Maria/Pepper if you wanted to go the femslash route. I like the idea of Pepper and Tony having an open relationship in a way that's happy not angsty - like, they talked it out, and they have guidelines and it works, no-one is secretly jealous or feeling unloved or whatever. Fury, I love for his dry sense of humour, and his faith in the Avengers. I don't like Fury being written as conniving for the sake of it - like, keeping Coulson's non-death secret just because. I like that he might find certain people trying, but he ultimately likes and respects them all. I love him and Maria as director and deputy - if you wanted to write him as actively training her up to take over from him, I would not say no at all - and that she questions him and he answers her.
Pepper, I love because she's shown as competent, and emotional, she stands up for herself, she takes charge, and she's gorgeous. I'd love to see her and Maria (and Fury if you wanted) de-aged to teenagers and running around causing havoc, if you felt like going that way.
Stargate Atlantis
I've sort of drifted out of this fandom lately, but it's still the fandom of my heart. Please, though, don't strand Atlantis with no contact from Earth (unless you're doing a season 1 AU), or write them into an antagonistic relationship with Earth/the SGC.
That said, one of my favourite things about the show and fandom was how people navigated having lives they'd left behind on Earth, especially for the characters who don't get enough development for us to know about that. Does Alicia have an ex-girlfriend she left behind? How did Major Teldy end up on the mission? I always imagine Alison Porter having a dog on Earth for some reasons, and Dusty having a sprawling family of brothers.
Larrin seems to get a lot of dislike/hate from fandom, but I love her and think she's awesome, so please don't make her the bad guy. Though I also love that she's not a straight up good guy either - she's morally grey, but it's for the good of her people, I think.
Nancy, we only ever saw in relationship to John, really, but I'd love to see more of her outside of this. Her job, her relationships, her hobbies, her good deeds. Does she stay in touch with David after the divorce? What's her own family like?