fic in a box 2025

Hi! I'm sulfate (also at pyrophane) and first of all, thank you so much for participating. I'm so excited to see what you create. I’ve written some prompts, but by no means do you have to include all or any of them—so long as you steer clear of my DNWs, if you have a particular idea you’re burning to explore, please go for it. Feel free to spin something entirely out of my likes list and disregard the prompts as well.

You can find me elsewhere on twitter ennezahard or highrankership, on tumblr delineative, and on my other dreamwidth rhodochrosite.

General | Detective Conan | Prince of Tennis | Sakamoto Days | Tennis RPF | The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

General likes:

• apocalypse or post-apocalypse settings
• characters being stabbed or otherwise injured on the shoulder
• clashing worldviews
• dreams
• enemies to lovers where there's still some form of rivalry or resentment, friends to enemies (to lovers optional), rivals to enemies (to lovers optional)
• espionage AU, casefic, fakeout makeouts, undercover as a couple
• fate and/or doom—in the sense of some unavoidable tragedy looming on the horizon even if the characters don't know it yet, or starcrossed lovers, or characters railing against their fate but ultimately unable to avert it, or characters being soulmates except one (or both) is horrified by the idea of predestined love (particularly where they're enemies before they find out they're soulmates). On a happier note, I also like fate in the sense of serendipitous meetings and reunions, and ships that are Meant To Be, in whatever capacity
• leader x second-in-command dynamics
• lotus-eater machines
• magical realism, urban fantasy, superheroes/supervillains, any magic/superpowers/witchcraft AU in general
• mentorships
• physicality and nonverbal communication
• pining and repressed feelings, repressed characters pushed to breaking and finally admitting what they want
• pop idol AU, Bleak Boyband Bingo tropes
• power dynamics, power imbalances, difficult/ambiguous/dysfunctional relationships that are intensely felt but hard to define
• roadtrips
• rarepairs, minor characters, multishipping, friendships, ensemble casts, casual/background poly, the most important person to a character being someone other than their ship partner
• sparring
• time loops
• unusual/experimental prose style and structure
• worldbuilding, histories, strong sense of setting
• wound care

NSFW likes (see here for more details):

• breathplay and choking
• competition, violence or rivalry elements
• D/s undertones, undernegotiated or non-negotiated D/s
• edging
• focus on hands/wrists/throats/collarbones
• power dynamics and authority kink
• praise as a form of degradation
• sex pollen-style dubcon
• basically, if it involves the combination of violence and intimacy, I'm in!

Art likes:

• blood
• characters interacting with their younger selves or other versions of themselves
• characters wearing hairclips
• characters pointing weapons at each other
• eye closeups
• floral motifs
• hands on throats / backs of necks / wrists
• mirrors reflecting a different scene
• outfit swap or one character wearing a distinctive clothing item belonging to the other character
• penrose stairs
• shoulder injuries
• stylisation and symbolism
• tarot card redraws
• unusual colour palettes
• weird or dramatic lighting and/or composition
• "what's in my bag"-style item layouts

Audio/video likes:

• compilation videos
• dialogue from source video clips
• instrumentals
• minor keys, unusual modes and scales
• string instruments
• synth-heavy music
• texture, harmony, counterpoint, anything that has a bunch of layered sounds happening at the same time

Medium opt-ins for all requests:

• Any - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium
• Any - Creator's Choice of 3+ Different Nominated In-Universe Mediums Per Work
• Art - Comics
• Art - Fanart
• Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
• Audio - Original Fan Music
• Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Illustrated Fic
• Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Any Nominated Art Tag
• Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Video - Any Nominated Video Medium
• Writing - Any In-Universe Documents
• Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
• Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic

DNWs:

• anything involving pregnancy or raising kids
• bitter breakups of canon relationships
• daddy kink
• formal BDSM
• graphic descriptions of broken bones—unless there's a supernatural healing mechanic at play, in which case go wild. But either way, other injuries in the nature of bruises, cuts, dislocations, stabbings, etc are all fine.
• graphic descriptions of unsanitary situations, including infections
• graphic medical experimentation
• homophobia (internalised or societal)
• infidelity
• lengthy kink negotiations
• public humiliation
• reincarnation AU, A/B/O, high school AU, historical or period setting AU

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