DeeDee's Faves New 2025 Exchange Letter
Oct. 30th, 2025 11:19 pmHello! It’s Jewels, juliana677 on AO3 and tumblr. Thank you so much for taking on this gift! I'm super excited to see where you go with it. You're welcome to take what you like from this letter; I mostly used it to organize my thoughts and provide some detail for some specific tags/characters that I like. Also feel free to look at my signups and letters for previous exchanges if you want. However please note that my DNW lists in this letter take precedence if you see something in a previous letter that is different here. (Basically, if I removed something from my dnw for this exchange it’s because I trust you guys more than I do a random exchange participant, so go ahead!)
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General:
I don’t have thoughts for every relationship I requested, but hopefully I’ve provided enough context for you! Please note that if I’ve requested something but it seems like it might be in conflict with my DNW (e.g. requesting a vampire character but vampire au is in my DNW), the request overrules!
I requested both the "/" and "&" tags for my Philza and Technoblade relationships- feel free to make them platonic, romantic, friends with benefits, in a qpr, etc. I'm comfortable receiving any versions of their relationship so feel free to go with what you like.
My DNW list is also not a judgement of you. It's a list of my own squicks and preferences.
General Likes:
Alternate universes (scifi, medieval, royalty, superheroes, etc); worldbuilding (I’m a sucker for worldbuilding); slice of life; loyalty; politics; cultural differences; competent/badass characters; happy endings; terrifying parents being gentle with their partner/kid; normally gentle parents flipping their shit when their kid is in danger; hurt/comfort; canon divergence aus; space; heist fics; modern aus; canon-compliant fics; geography, geology, science in general applied to the minecraft-related fandoms; meta/musings on any of the above; maps (I love a good map); bondage, breathplay, breeding kink especially when combined with a/b/o or hybrid traits, orgasm delay/denial;
Art Likes:
I will always love maps. Maps my beloved. I also love in-universe document page style things (show me a character’s sketchbook/diary and the coffee rings or pencil shavings on it, or the supply chain documents with doodles in the margins), scenes or characters drawn as if they’re stained glass, reference sheets for characters or weapons (show me what the guys look like or what their swords look like, I love it). Short webcomics also welcome!
General DNW:
Character bashing; mention of COVID; mention of cancer/major illness; horror; explicit gore; suicide; self-harm; substance abuse/addiction; cannibalism; hand trauma; disordered eating; dysphoria; substance abuse/addiction; scat/piss; vomiting; dd/lg; age regression; age play; age play; unhappy endings, major character death; child death; miscarriages; underage sex child abuse/neglect by requested characters
Fandom-Specific Notes:
Vampires SMP
Avid/Scott: I think Scott could make Avid Worse and have fun doing it. Avid is very into this even if he initially protests. (I feel like Scott takes the route of seducing Avid, showing him all the benefits and Avid is into this.)
Pearl/Cleo: Pre ep 6 - Something about Cleo trusting Pearl to be one of the first people to know about Cleo’s vampirism and Pearl keeping that secret. Also they’re roommates. And post ep 6 can just be so fucked up. Pearl should be allowed to have a terrible time I think.
Pyro/Scott: I think Pyro should decide that the best way to make up for all his mistakes is to
Avid/Owen: Again, I think Owen would love to make Avid Worse. Avid is also still super into it. (Unlike Scott, I think Owen is meaner about making Avid worse and Avid thinks that’s hot.) You could also go with Owen having to find another way to torture Avid now that he can’t leave Avid for last as Owen repeats his massacre of Oakhurst.
Owen/Scott: I just love the idea of Scott looking at everything Owen has going on and being like “you know what, sure, I’m into that.” Alternately, grudge fucking/sex as a power play. If you don’t want to go for something with sex, Scott is always loyal to his teammates (no matter the universe) and Owen is the only one who hasn’t betrayed him so far and that’s has to mean something, right?
Additional notes: Feel free to go into Avid/Owen/Scott, I forgot to add it to my signup after it was seconded. Again, I think Owen and Scott join forces to make Avid worse in the best way. (The combination of mean dom Owen and seductive (probably the wrong word but hopefully you know what I mean) dom Scott makes Avid’s head explode.)
Vampires SMP DNW: I think the only thing specific for this fandom is outright rape/noncon. Dubcon is fine, “it’s complicated” is fine. Otherwise, the general DNW applies.
SMP Earth
The Antarctic Empire: It's a boogeyman to the rest of the world, a world power, a conquering empire, a barren wasteland. The leaders are powerhouses and loyal to their empire down to their bones. But how does it function, how do they survive, what's their relationship with other nations?
Techno/Phil; Techno & Phil: They’re coworkers, they’re friends, they’re partners in crime! Co-leaders of the AE and they do a damn good job. Learning to trust each other and building a working relationship that very quickly becomes a friendship that will define the world. Everyone is afraid of them but they’re just two dudes having a good time, vibing together, learning to trust each other to an insane degree.
Techno: Outwardly more chill than Phil. He seems reasonable. Is actually a ball of anxiety wrapped up in a fur-lined uniform. The strategist and the deal-maker.
Phil: Any sadness he had in the DSMP about Wilbur’s death is just feral here. Feral and cunning and ruthless. Techno makes the deals but Phil is the one standing behind him with a knife in his hand and bloodshed in his eyes.
Specific Likes: Royalty or Space AUs would be great here; royal/arranged marriage or war prize fic; examinations of the AE; closer looks into how the empire functions; maps; a behind-the-scenes look at conquering the world; first-hand documents from the attempt
Prompts:
- Hiding an injury; someone is hiding an injury from someone else and the other person/people discover it and react
- Celebrating after taking over the world
- A day of Phil and Techno actually ruling their empire well
- Phil and Techno's relationship from the perspective of someone else (Pete, random AE citizens, other rulers, etc)
- A sci-fi or post-apocalyptic au on this would also be really cool!
- Feel free to grab from my Original Work requests and use those as prompts as well!
SMP Earth DNW: SBI Family Dnyamic; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; streamer aus; child death; Tommy or Wilbur as Phil and Techno’s kids; demonization of the Antarctic Empire; Wilbur as anything more than a mention (and even then I'd prefer he be left out entirely)
Dream SMP
Techno/Phil; Techno & Phil: the closest of friends, or something more if you want to go that route. They trust each other and the other’s capabilities without question. Phil is Techno’s hidden sword and Techno is Phil’s partner. Their relationship goes back centuries, they know each other front and back and side to side and yet can still occasionally be surprised by something the other does.
Techno/Niki: Both of them are so, so used to being seen as something that does not encompass all of them (Niki as the sweet baker and Techno as the weapon) and now they have someone who sees them for who and what they are. Techno values Niki's sense of justice as much as her baked goods and her abilities as a fighter and member of the team. Niki sees beyond the weapon and the PVP god status to the man who loves Greek myths and who cares so deeply about his pets and friends.
Phil & Ranboo & Techno & Niki: please for the love of god let the Syndicate be friends.
Philza/Quackity/Techno: I just think Phil and Techno could pull off a great mean dom double team with Quackity. Also the fear play and wing kink potential would go wild.
Techno: tired and ready to retire but the world won’t let him rest. Overprepared for any outcome because in his mind everyone else will be just as prepared as he would be normally, so he needs to go the extra step. Kind to animals and his friends. He has emotional intelligence but talking about it would kill him so he simply doesn’t.
Phil: feral and sad. He killed his son and regrets it every day even after Wilbur comes back. He lives for chaos and is prepared to go feral at any time. Supports Techno unconditionally. Is overprepared for everything because he knows how to survive, and that includes knowing how to raid Techno’s base without Techno getting too mad about it. He always has a project.
Likes: AUs would be cool, but I also enjoy fics that play within the bounds of canon. Missing scenes or moments between characters, or backstory for characters that came onto the SMP knowing each other. I would also love to see the Syndicate bonding! Make them friends!
Prompts:
- Phil and Techno meeting in secret after the Butcher Army execution attempt (Bonus points for wing preening and hair brushing/braiding)
- In the aftermath of Nov 16th Techno finds a distraught and injured Phil and takes care of him.
- Something from Phil and Techno's backstory
- Syndicate bonding
- How Niki Phil and Techno got together or a quiet moment between the three of them
- How the relationship between the characters started
- Niki and Techno doing something together
- A moment between Cyberknife and Technoblade (with or without the rest of the syndicate)
- Syndicate Detective Agency would be super fun
- A cool AU!
- Feel free to grab from my Original Work requests and use those as prompts as well!
Dream SMP DNW: Character bashing; mention of COVID; mention of cancer/major illness; horror; explicit gore; suicide; substance abuse/addiction; cannibalism; hand trauma; vampire aus; werewolf aus; disordered eating; dysphoria; substance abuse/addiction; SBI family dynamic; dark SBI or fics with dark characters in that style; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; child death; Wilbur as anything more than a mention (only if necessary, I'd prefer he not be mentioned at all if possible)
Life Series
Gem & Grian & Pearl: I love the Villies I think they’re so much fun and so pathetic. They do such a bad job of being villains but they’re having fun even when they’re expanding the square hole. If you want to throw Evo nonsense in as well, does Gem have to deal with Grian and Pearl’s flashbacks to Evo and everything that happened there? Also, this is completely out of left field but if you want to write a fic from the POV of the square hole of whatever the three of them get up to, I think that would be incredible.
Gem/Pearl: You know that thing about red lives also being increasingly horny? Yeah, that but with Gem/Pearl where Gem is already always willing to commit murder. Combined with Gem’s excited “Do we get to kill someone Pearl?” when Pearl was the Boogeyman in Past Life (which lives rent-free in my brain) and I think this could be great.
Scar/Grian and Scar & Grian: Desert duo. Soulmates. Winners. Honestly follow your bliss with this one but if you want a prompt: Grian and Scar talking post Secret Life about the experience of winning a death game (probably hurt/comfort or just proving that they are capable of being gentle with each other again). Feel free to throw in the “only winners remember” trope if you like as well.
Grian/Jimmy: I think they can be weird birds together. Maybe they have makeup sex (for their definition of “makeup”, which still includes Grian roasting Jimmy about everything he can) post Wild Life. Maybe they bond over having their wings bound or hidden during the games even when their bird brains are going crazy about it. (You could do something Fucked Up with this). Maybe you can incorporate Watcher stuff and lean into Grian being a former Watcher and Jimmy as the Watcher’s favorite punching bag.
Additional Notes: Feel free to combine these with Hermitcraft or Empries stuff.
Crossover Fandom
I grabbed some of these because I thought they would be really fun to read or write! I’ve got a few thoughts for some of these tags, but honestly go wild!
Techza in Stardew Valley: I think Techno and Phil deserve to retire in Stardew Valley. You could go the route of other smp members also being Stardew residents, or Techno & Phil as the new farmers with the rest of the characters the same as the game. Either way they’re having fun befriending the junimos, quoting anarchist theory at Lewis, and thwarting Joja. Phil is probably spending all his time in the mines or fishing and Techno is min-maxing the farm.
QSMP Phil/SMP Earth Techno: How do these two meet (or re-connect)? Is there time travel involved? Maybe it's a war prize situation? Do they exist in a Mad Max-esque world?
Missa/Phil/Techno: Phil deserves to have all his husbands in one place. An arranged marriage au specifically for QSMP Missa and the SMP Earth versions of Phil and Techno (or just Phil with co-emperor Techno watching the train wreck evolve from the sidelines). Or Missa finding different versions of Phil and Techno in every universe and falling for them.
Techno and Phil in the Murderbot Diaries: I don't have anything specific for any of the versions of Phil and Techno in this universe, so go wild! Swap them with canon characters, integrate them into the universe as a version of themselves, throw them into the universe and have them meet the canon characters, enjoy!
DNW: Murderbot using pronouns other than “it/its”; Character bashing; mention of COVID; mention of cancer/major illness; horror; explicit gore; suicide; substance abuse/addiction; cannibalism; hand trauma; disordered eating; dysphoria; substance abuse/addicition; dark SBI or fics with dark characters in that style; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; child death; SBI Family Dynamic; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; streamer aus; underage; child abuse/neglect; death of a parent; Wilbur as Phil's son; no mentions of Wilbur Soot preferred; age play; depictions of sexual assault; unhappy endings, major character death; child death; miscarriages
Hermitcraft SMP
Scar/Grian: Give me all the aus. Please. I’m currently partial to Hotguy/Cuteguy au (identity shenanigans, hero vs vigilante dynamic, hybrid stuff), some kind of pirate au (rival pirates, former or current navy captain, shipwrecked sailor and merman), or a western au (do they run rival bandit gangs, is one of them the not-super-morally-upright sheriff, go nuts!). Alternately, Grian and Scar post Season 8 finale reassuring each other that they’re alive and okay.
Grian & Pearl: I would honestly just love to see shenanigans with the two of them. You can go with them being siblings or just friends. I just want to see them having fun pranking other server members or bonding.
Gem/Pearl: Post life-series bonding? Honestly I just love these two.
Cub/Scar/Grian: I will admit, I mostly included this one so that someone could continue the convexian propaganda.
Grian/Mumbo: Bothering is their love language. Maybe something post life game with Grian and Mumbo reconnecting?
Additional Notes: Feel free to combine these with Empires or Life Series stuff!
QSMP
Phil/Missa: Government assigned husbands! Missa is a pathetic wet cat and basically a looney tunes character but he still gets shit done and loves his government assigned husband and their kids. (Please don't make him just sad and pathetic and incompetent). And Phil is so, so good at the block game but not always good with people, which is where Missa comes in. Phil has a skull on his backpack for Missa and Missa got kidnapped by dogs while trying to find something nice for Phil, that's just how they operate.
Philza/Tubbo: As someone else put it "Tubbo is very 'mad scientist who needs to get laid'", and that's so right. And given Tubbo's interest in older men, Phil should be the man to scratch that itch.
Phil & Chayanne & Tallulah: Unconventional families my beloved! Phil loves his son and his adopted daughter. He knows them so well that he can immediately identify when the codes are pretending to be his kids and have fooled everyone else. They love him and trust him and listen to him. Chayanne followed Phil while he was possessed by the Ender King!
Phil & Chayanne & Missa: They're a family! They love each other! Phil takes Chayanne on adventures and lets him be chaotic and Chayanne and Missa cook together!
Ender King & Philza: Possession storylines are so much fun, there’s so much angst potential and the stakes are so high! Phil has two kids and he’s already dealing with the Federation and an absent husband and now he can’t trust his own mind and sanity.
Prompts:
- Phil while possessed by the Ender King
- Phil and the rest of the death family after being possessed by the Ender King
- Technoblade helping Chayanne fight possessed Phil
- Some other meeting between Technoblade and Chayanne
- Phil and the others trying to get to the eggs at the end of Purgatory
- Phil flying going back for Tubbo to fly him to the boat at the end of Purgatory
- Chayane and Tallulah being replaced by the codes again (or are they) and this time Phil doesn’t know whether to trust his instincts that are screaming that these aren’t his kids because the Ender King has fucked him up.
- Phil fucking Tubbo to shut him up
- Feel free to grab from my Original Work requests and use those as prompts as well!
QSMP DNW: SBI family dynamic; dark SBI or fics with dark characters in that style; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; child death; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; streamer aus; underage; child abuse/neglect; death of a parent; Phil as Tubbo’s dad; Wilbur as Phil's son; no mentions of Wilbur preferred