Fic In A box 2023 Letter
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juliana677It's so nice to meet you! I'm Jewels (she/her), 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.
General:
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, superheros, etc); worldbuilding; 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; hiest fics; modern aus; canon-compliant fics; geogrpahy, geology, science in general applied to the minecraft-related fandoms and to Knock the Ice from my Bones; meta/musings on any of the above; maps (I love a good map); smut; kinky smut (bondage, breathplay, breeding kink especially when combined with a/b/o or hybrid traits, orgasm delay/denial)
General DNW:
Character bashing; mention of COVID; mention of cancer/major illness; horror; explicit gore; suicide; self-harm; substance abuse/addiction; cannibalism; hand trauma; vampire aus; werewolf aus; disordered eating; dysphoria; substance abuse/addiction; rape/noncon; scat/piss; vomiting; dd/lg; age regression; age play
Fandom-Specific Notes:
Knock the Ice from My Bones
Honestly, I only expect you to look at this section of tags if you’ve read the OG fic or seen the aus that float around on the blog (gdcatboys). I’d like to see something canon compliant with the characters, or from one of the aus from the blog, or even an au that’s pretty much canon but featuring a trans character. Feel free to throw in Maria/Sneeg if you want. I like rotating just what happened as part of the backstory, like how Phil and Techno got together, or Dream and Wilbur in Manburg just doing their best to survive and loving each other. Or just, other tiny moments: Techno and Wilbur in Techno's greenhouse, Phil and Dream spending their evenings playing strategy games together, Techno and Dream getting into good-natured arguments about the nature of magic and enchantments, Phil and Wilbur complaining about other nobles after a long painful meeting.
KTIFMB DNW: unhappy endings, major character death, mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death, child death
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
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
Dream SMP
Emerald Duo
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.
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.
Specific 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!
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/addicition; SBI family dynamic; dark SBI or fics with dark characters in that style; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; child death
Origins SMP
Origins DNW: no major character death outside of the respawn mechanic (if you include that); 'hurt no comfort'; dark Phil or Sneeg; hybrid racism/hunters as the only source of conflict
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. They love each other even if Missa is a bit insecure after the whole Phil and Forever thing. 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.
Phil/Forever: Forever was so determined to win over Phil and Phil's functionally a single dad! Let him snap and use Forever as stress relief or ask Forever to stay with him one night out of loneliness. Or Presidential hate-sex or Phil trying to get Forever to abdicate via a relationship/sex.
Phil/Forever/Missa: I just think they're neat. And I think Phil and Missa would fuck with Forever before they fuck Forever. Or Missa and Forever competing for Phil's love and falling in love with each other at the same time.
Phil & Chayanne & Tallulah: Unconventional families my beloved! Phil loves his son and his granddaughter that he has basically adopted as his 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.
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!
Wilbur/Quackity: I just think you could do something so so interesting with Wilbur coming back and knowing something is wrong with Q.
QSMP 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/addicition; SBI family dynamic; dark SBI or fics with dark characters in that style; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; child death; SBI Family Dnyamic; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; streamer aus; underage; child abuse/neglect; death of a parent; if you have Phil leave Missa for Forever, DO NOT have them split up because Missa was abusive (amicable splits and breakups are fine); dubcon; please don't give Wilbur and Quackity their DSMP backstories
Original Work
Most of these relationship tags I grabbed because they wuld be fun! I go into a couple that I had specific ideas for below but for the most part feel free to take them and run with them (keeping my general DNW in mind). You can also use these as prompts for one of the other fandoms in my request as well if you like!
Enthusiastic Spirit Halloweeen Staff Member & Confused Monster: Listen, I just think this has the potential to be hilarious. A monster who goes from confused to outraged because this one detail of their costume is wildly incorrect and the employee is normally not paid enough to deal with this but this is incredible.
Female Plant Mage/Femal Weather Mage: It could be so sweet! The weather mage helps the plant mage make the flowers grow and the plant mage gives the weather mage a reason to use their magic!
Male Pumpkin Farmer/Man Purchasing a Suspicious Number of Pumpkins: Okay, hear me out, the guy purchasing the specific number of pumpkins could have a motive that includes: going to taste-test every pumpkin pie recipe, he procures the pumpkins for fairy godmothers to change into carriages, he's making a life-size pumpkin carving of the pumpkin farmer and knows he's going to mess up a lot.
Traumatised but Loyal Male Human Weapon/His Friendly New Male Master: I love dehumanization and trying to be human again because you've got someone treating you like a person.
General:
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, superheros, etc); worldbuilding; 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; hiest fics; modern aus; canon-compliant fics; geogrpahy, geology, science in general applied to the minecraft-related fandoms and to Knock the Ice from my Bones; meta/musings on any of the above; maps (I love a good map); smut; kinky smut (bondage, breathplay, breeding kink especially when combined with a/b/o or hybrid traits, orgasm delay/denial)
General DNW:
Character bashing; mention of COVID; mention of cancer/major illness; horror; explicit gore; suicide; self-harm; substance abuse/addiction; cannibalism; hand trauma; vampire aus; werewolf aus; disordered eating; dysphoria; substance abuse/addiction; rape/noncon; scat/piss; vomiting; dd/lg; age regression; age play
Fandom-Specific Notes:
Knock the Ice from My Bones
Honestly, I only expect you to look at this section of tags if you’ve read the OG fic or seen the aus that float around on the blog (gdcatboys). I’d like to see something canon compliant with the characters, or from one of the aus from the blog, or even an au that’s pretty much canon but featuring a trans character. Feel free to throw in Maria/Sneeg if you want. I like rotating just what happened as part of the backstory, like how Phil and Techno got together, or Dream and Wilbur in Manburg just doing their best to survive and loving each other. Or just, other tiny moments: Techno and Wilbur in Techno's greenhouse, Phil and Dream spending their evenings playing strategy games together, Techno and Dream getting into good-natured arguments about the nature of magic and enchantments, Phil and Wilbur complaining about other nobles after a long painful meeting.
KTIFMB DNW: unhappy endings, major character death, mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death, child death
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
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
Dream SMP
Emerald Duo
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.
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.
Specific 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!
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/addicition; SBI family dynamic; dark SBI or fics with dark characters in that style; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; child death
Origins SMP
Techno & Phil: they know each other from the past and trust each other. Maybe Techno isn’t one of Phil’s minions but Techno has surely been informed of some of Phil’s evil schemes.
Phil/Sneeg: Bros, partners in crime, chaotic little shits. Phil followed Sneeg to another dimension (Rats SMP) to try and get him back. They like to adventure and cause chaos together.
Techno: Obsessed with carrots. Claims he’s a frog. Long history with Phil. Mostly just wants to vibe and grow/eat/steal carrots.
Phil: He’s a cartoon villain and he loves it. The Villain on a server surrounded by villain wannabes. Just a Dude when he’s with Techno though. When he's with Sneeg he is somehow both 'Just a Dude' and 'The Villain.' It's a talent.
Likes: slice of life, how Phil and Techno met each other (two hyrbids or a hybrid and a human on the run from the law and possibly also slavers), human Techno and hybrid Phil aus; how Phil and Sneeg met, heists; villain expolits; superhero aus; scifi aus; an arranged marriage au could be fun here;
Origins DNW: no major character death outside of the respawn mechanic (if you include that); 'hurt no comfort'; dark Phil or Sneeg; hybrid racism/hunters as the only source of conflict
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. They love each other even if Missa is a bit insecure after the whole Phil and Forever thing. 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.
Phil/Forever: Forever was so determined to win over Phil and Phil's functionally a single dad! Let him snap and use Forever as stress relief or ask Forever to stay with him one night out of loneliness. Or Presidential hate-sex or Phil trying to get Forever to abdicate via a relationship/sex.
Phil/Forever/Missa: I just think they're neat. And I think Phil and Missa would fuck with Forever before they fuck Forever. Or Missa and Forever competing for Phil's love and falling in love with each other at the same time.
Phil & Chayanne & Tallulah: Unconventional families my beloved! Phil loves his son and his granddaughter that he has basically adopted as his 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.
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!
Wilbur/Quackity: I just think you could do something so so interesting with Wilbur coming back and knowing something is wrong with Q.
QSMP 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/addicition; SBI family dynamic; dark SBI or fics with dark characters in that style; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; child death; SBI Family Dnyamic; mentions of cc!Technoblade’s death; bad dad Phil; streamer aus; underage; child abuse/neglect; death of a parent; if you have Phil leave Missa for Forever, DO NOT have them split up because Missa was abusive (amicable splits and breakups are fine); dubcon; please don't give Wilbur and Quackity their DSMP backstories
Original Work
Most of these relationship tags I grabbed because they wuld be fun! I go into a couple that I had specific ideas for below but for the most part feel free to take them and run with them (keeping my general DNW in mind). You can also use these as prompts for one of the other fandoms in my request as well if you like!
Enthusiastic Spirit Halloweeen Staff Member & Confused Monster: Listen, I just think this has the potential to be hilarious. A monster who goes from confused to outraged because this one detail of their costume is wildly incorrect and the employee is normally not paid enough to deal with this but this is incredible.
Female Plant Mage/Femal Weather Mage: It could be so sweet! The weather mage helps the plant mage make the flowers grow and the plant mage gives the weather mage a reason to use their magic!
Male Pumpkin Farmer/Man Purchasing a Suspicious Number of Pumpkins: Okay, hear me out, the guy purchasing the specific number of pumpkins could have a motive that includes: going to taste-test every pumpkin pie recipe, he procures the pumpkins for fairy godmothers to change into carriages, he's making a life-size pumpkin carving of the pumpkin farmer and knows he's going to mess up a lot.
Traumatised but Loyal Male Human Weapon/His Friendly New Male Master: I love dehumanization and trying to be human again because you've got someone treating you like a person.