Not Prime Time 2019

[iomixit]

Dear Prime Time Player,

Thank you so much for writing for me; the fandoms I have picked below are all very different but dear to my heart. I hope something inspires you!

I'm sure I'll like pretty much anything that you write for me but if you would like to get a sense of who I am as a writer/reader, I am asuralucier on Ao3.

There are very few things that I will not read, so please take the following as Do Not Wants:
- AUs set in space or A/B/O AUs or supernatural AUs.
- Extreme kink, or PWP. That being said, I love, love a sex scene that is earned, so don’t be afraid to get a little naughty. But please no rape/non-con; dub-con is fine.
- Fics featuring kid characters that are not in canon.
- Character Bashing (characters taking the piss out of each other is fine, with my fandoms it’s probably a given!)

And...that’s it! Moving on to the fun stuff, please feel free to take this list as a general list of things I like if my fandom-specific wants don’t thrill you. I am always here for things I didn’t know I wanted.
+ Excepting the AUs above, I love AUs. I think different settings can really bring out a different side of a character we know and love. That being said, my favourite AUs include Academia AU, Road Trip AU, Classical Musicians AU, and Coffeeshop AUs, Unusual Jobs AU, and Lawyer AUs.
+ I love unresolved sexual tension (UST). I want to squirm with the characters and honestly, if you include this, I’m just as happy for it not to be resolved.
+ I love characters who READ. I also like getting strange recommendations off of fanfics I read. So please, if you have characters read, I will be so so happy. On that note, I love love literary allusions, philosophising about history and the nature of time, banter, irony, and well-thought out cringe.
+ I love food porn/drinks porn. The second one sounds odd, but I once read a story that spent so much time describing cocktails and I fell in love. So yes, I’m all about characters enjoying their food and cooking and drinking.
+ Angst. This is shamelessly copied from my Yuletide letter, but I love love angst. Give me all the angst. Reasons for angst can include: moral ambiguity, guilt, failed ambitions, thoughtful portrayals of grief, depression, PTSD, lost loves and all the rest. I also don't mind character death, but please please don't let it be a cheap plot point for angst.
+ Other general things that strike my fancy: Mindgames, locked room scenarios, lush descriptions of feeling and emotions, outsider POV, character study, characters being tied to a place, sensitively handled difficult topics.
+ A note on gen fics: I love gen interactions between characters and I have a few prompts thrown in to this effect for good measure; if they inspire you and you'd like to have gen interactions in the background of a shippy fic I am into this.

Fandom Specific Wants:

Suits: Harvey/Mike; Harvey & Louis; Louis & Dr. Lipschitz

Having binged this canon again recently, I am reminded of how much I loved the earlier seasons (up to season 3). However, there was something that I adored about the trainwreck that was season 8 and that was Louis freakin' Litt. The character has grown so much and he's actually interesting now rather than just quirky and strange. I would love any fic in this fandom to include a later evolution of Louis if you choose to include him, and any Harvey/Mike fic to adhere to the characterizations of the earlier seasons. I hope that makes sense!

- Harvey/Mike
Suit!kink; would not say no to impromptu sex in a dressing room or something. Breaking my no PWP rule because there always has to be one!
- AU: Harvey is stuck doing pro bono work and he is assigned to Mike's case (drugs? something else?) and finds himself impressed by the kid.
- Mike and Harvey go to a superheroes convention. Bonus points if they disrupt a panel with unpopular opinions. Matching cosplay?
- Canon AU: Mike works at the mail room at Pearson Hardman and loses Harvey's mail. It goes from there.
- An AU where Harvey also has a photographic memory and that is how he and Mike bond. It annoys everyone else.

Harvey & Louis
- That episode where Harvey makes Louis turn off his dictaphone and says "we're going to go to dinner and I'm going to say nice things to you." eeeee. I would like a fluff piece where Louis doesn't eat anything during dinner and just subsists on Harvey's compliments. Because he would.
- I didn't nom this, but I really enjoy Louis's relationship with Sheila. Off the back of that, I would love Louis to impart relationship advice to Harvey re Mike, because you know, to help a bro out.
- Academia AU where Harvey is an infuriating professor and Louis is the long-suffering head of department or HR. But somehow they're friends. Mike can be there too along with the rest of the gang!

Louis & Dr. Lipschitz
- All I want is for Lipschitz to be my therapist. Really. I would pay good money to glimpse inside Lipschitz's notes on Louis's medical file. Or 20 messages on Lipschitz's machine left for him at weekends etc.
- Give me the first time they've ever hung out outside of work! Is it an accident? Was it planned? Did Louis secretly find out about Lipschitz's birthday?
- Anger Management AU - where Louis gets sent to Anger Management. I don't know.


Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nathaniel Plimpton/Rebecca Bunch; Grocery Clerk with Half an Eyelid & None; Nathaniel Plimpton/Maya; Greg Serrano & Josh Chan

I love this canon for lots of reasons and wasn't so fond of the final episode but in reality that was the only choice they could have made. I would love anything that keeps the zany feel, toeing the line between Rebecca's imagination and reality.

Rebecca/Nathaniel
-I want a Harry Potter AU. Because Rebecca is totes a Hermione and Nathaniel is totes a Draco.
-Or they read fanfic together after discovering each other in fannish spaces. Or maybe Nathaniel or Rebecca finds a fanfic and wants to use it as a guide to repairing their relationship. That seems about plausible for this show.
-Or Rebecca is a BNF and Nathaniel’s a comment troll who is secretly in love with her. Write me a love letter to fandom with these two at the centre and I will be very happy.
-Anything Get-together wise post-canon.

Grocery Clerk with Half an Eyelid & None
- WHO IS THIS GUY. He is genuinely my favorite extra. What does he do in his spare time? Any sort of backstory on him would be aces and a half. Headcanon is that he is a jobbing actor between shifts at the grocery store. Bonus if he now works at Whole Foods because celebs hang out there.

Greg Serrano & Josh Chan - Prompt specific dnw/dw: Please let him be Santino shaped please please. I have nothing against Skyler, i just don't find him terribly convincing.
- I would love some pre-canon backstory: how did they become friends? It was never clear to me why they were best friends. The show just kept telling us that they are and I...don't see it? I think you can do better!
- Greg caters Josh's wedding postcanon and they reminiscence about how far they've come.

Good Omens - Aziraphale/Crowley or Aziraphale & Crowley
Guys, I'm scared, this is my favorite book and the more I hear about Netflix the more scared I get. I love these two and would love to get anything in the spirit of the book before the show comes out and inevitably precedes book canon.

- Political Satire please, anything with Crowley and Aziraphale hanging around Whitehall/Parliament and dying. They want to go back to Heaven/Hell respectively because this is just too terrible. How do they scheme to get there?
- American road trip AU. Up to you why they're there or what their goal is. I'd love lots of culture shock and perhaps one or both of them discovering Rocky Mountain oysters.
- Normal people want to film a Notting Hill type film using Aziraphale's bookshop. He thinks that it will be good exposure. He is wrong.
- They switch bodies. This leads to Interesting Realizations if they access to each other's thoughts/heads etc.
- Aziraphale and/or Crowley react to this. Or heck, they start a Youtube channel and people ship them and they are perturbed. (I also love any variation of mistaken dating/fake dating etc.)

X-Men: Alternative Timeline Movies: Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr; Hank McCoy/Alex Summers

I have a lot of time for X-Men: First Class. I still have not seen any of the other films but I do not mind spoilers. Most of my prompts are AU, but if something strikes you to write within canon, don't be shy!

Erik/Charles
- Student/Teacher AU where Erik's a nontraditional student and Charles feels lonely intellectually but finds hitting on his student weird. Some angst and a happy ending preferred. Powers welcome.
- Outtakes from that roadtrip during XMFC. Things that makes my heart sing are an accidental dine and dash, Erik being unimpressed with the Hoover Dam and other American institutions, Charles writing postcards for prosperity.
-They accidentally switch powers.
-Dark!Charles.
-Groundhog's Day AU for the Beach. Bonus points if things stay the same after all (same = the divorce happens etc).
-Erik is basically Brandon Sullivan from Shame and Charles is his not entirely professional therapist. Or if you'd like in more general terms, Erik deals with sex addiction and Charles is curious and wanting to be helpful.

Hank/Alex
+ High School/College AU: Alex Summers and his unusual (nerdy) drug dealer.
+ Immediately after the events of the first movie. Bonus for Alex taking care of Hank even if he doesn't know how.
+ Faux Celeb AU: stage trained (Shakespeare-obsessed) Hank meets ex-Disney kid Alex Summers.
+ Hank and Alex have met before Charles started the X-Men.