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- tommy oliver/jason scott,
- tyler navarro
Dear Rare Male Exchange Author
Hi, thanks so much for writing for me! Some of the below ideas are taken directly from my other letters, so apologies if any of this looks familiar to you.
Genre thoughts: I love both the fluffiest of fluff and the smuttiest of smut. I don’t expect to see both in the same fic, but if you can make it work, power to you. I have a complicated relationship with angst - it’s fine if there’s some there, but I prefer it conclude with a happy ending. Given that I have multiple fandoms that include teenagers, please make sure everyone is 18+ - and that it’s made clear in the fic - if there’s going to be any smut.
Character death thoughts: Permanently killing a main character is a big fat DNW for me. Refe rencing the death of a minor character is okay, as long as it’s not a primary plot point. Basically - fic opens at a funeral or passing reference to someone that died before the events of the story, okay. Minor character dying in the middle of the story, DNW. Temporary character death is okay, as long as the resurrection occurs at the end of the story. There’s a couple characters that are dead in canon, so that gives you one fix-it option.
Pregnancy/kid fics: Yes please. I adore all sorts of kid fics. While I’m okay with mpreg as a general concept, I don’t want to see it in every fandom or with every ship, so I’ll mention where I’m good with it under the request specific info.
SFW DNWS: on screen-death of any character, permanent death of a major character, angsty endings
NSFW DNWS: dub-con/non-con, extreme kink, body fluids not meant to be involved in sex
Crossover Fandom
Evan Lorne/Cameron Mitchell
I have two ideas here: they’ve been together for years and are used to long-distance because they’ve rarely been stationed together, so Evan going to Atlantis doesn’t change much. Alternatively, they get together after both are working for the SGC and have to learn how to navigate being in different galaxies. Mpreg is okay here in a "weird ancient tech did weird things and now there's a pregnant dude" capacity.
Evan Lorne/Cameron Mitchell/John Sheppard
I love the idea of the three of them going way back and having and on-again, off-again triad over the years where being stationed far apart is the main reason for the off-periods. You can have them navigate a long-distance relationship with Cam on Earth and John and Evan in Atlantis or you can go with an AU where Cam is also in Atlantis. I’m good with either. Mpreg is okay here in a "weird ancient tech did weird things and now there's a pregnant dude" capacity.
Doctor Who
Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness
I just finished watching Nine’s season and I would love to see either a) an AU where Nine doesn’t regenerate and doesn’t leave Jack behind or b) them hooking up after Nine sends Rose back home but before the Daleks start killing everyone.
Harry Potter
Marcus Flint/Percy Weasley
Percy is my favorite and this is a guilty pleasure pairing for me. One thing I do not want to see is any cruelty on Marcus’s part or Percy feeling coerced into a relationship. Despite any public antagonism at Hogwarts, these are two men that actually care about each other.
I’m good with either a secret relationship while they’re at Hogwarts or something where they get together as adults. If you want to include Oliver knowing and thinking Percy is nuts, that would be a nice bonus.
Percy introducing Marcus to the Weasley clan and none of them being sure how to react would be awesome too.
Marcus Flint/Percy Wesley/Oliver Wood
This is another guilty pleasure. I’m assuming that two are together first and bring in the third. Percy/Oliver bringing in Marcus probably makes the most sense, but I’m open to the other alternatives.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers/Howard Stark
I have a few ideas here:
1) Steve and Bucky were a couple before the war, and bring Howard into the relationship
2) Steve starts a secret relationship with Howard - Bucky, who had never thought about Steve that way before gets jealous. The three men eventually come to an agreement.
3) AU: Bucky and Steve were a couple before the war. After Bucky falls, Steve seeks comfort in Howard. Steve does not crash the plane and he and Howard continue their relationship in secret when they come home after the war. They learn that Bucky is still alive when Hydra sends him to kill Howard. They are able to break Bucky free of his programming and when the dust settles, it becomes a three-way relationship, because Steve can’t give either of them up.
4) AU: Steve still crashes the plane, but Howard finds him much sooner. Howard had always suspected that Hydra had tested one of Zola’s attempts to replicate the serum on Bucky, so when Steve survived at the bottom of the ocean, he convinces himself that Bucky survived the fall. Howard and Steve move heaven and Earth to get Bucky back and bring him home.
4) Present Day: Steve gets angry about the “went into the ice a virgin” jokes and makes a comment about how he had threesomes all the time during the war. Tony is horrified in a “oh my god please stop talking about my father’s sex life” way when he figures out who Steve was having those threesomes with.
5) Non-Superhero AU: Howard is a single father. He hires Bucky to help his son Tony learn how to defend himself as the boy gets relentlessly bullied over being smarter and younger than all his classmates. He doesn’t expect to fall in love with Bucky and his boyfriend Steve.
6) Howard, Bucky, & Steve were an established threesome during the war. Howard wasn’t trying the replicate the serum and therefore, Bucky was never sent to kill him, and Howard Stark is still alive when Steve gets found (either Maria has already passed away or she and Howard have divorced - no infidelity please). Tony gets his entire worldview turned upside down when Howard & Steve pick things back up, as it explains Howard’s obsession with Steve. There’s a whole lot of drama when Steve learns about Operation Paperclip, but it leads them to getting Bucky back.
7) Endgame Everyone Lives AU: Steve takes Bucky with him to return the stones, and then they go back to 1971 to be with Howard (just in case “changing the past doesn’t change the future” isn’t completely true, they don’t want to prevent Tony from ever being born).
8) Changing the Past Does Change the Future AU: Howard spent years trying to invent time travel in an attempt to go back and prevent Bucky from falling and Steve from crashing the plane. He stops when Maria gets pregnant with Tony so that he doesn’t prevent his son from being born. After Infinity War, they build on this research to go back, destroy the Tesseract and fix a bunch of other stuff so Howard, Bucky, and Steve get their happily ever after and Tony still exists.
James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Give me anything post-Winter Soldier. Canon divergence (ignoring CW, IW, and Endgame) preferred.
James “Bucky” Barnes/T’Challa
I’d love to see something expanding on Bucky’s time in Wakanda. Please either set it before IW, Endgame, and WF or pretend they don’t exist.
James “Bucky” Barnes/T’ Challa/Sam Wilson
The fugitive Avengers use Wakanda as home base between CW and IW. Things between the three develop after Bucky is fixed and while Sam is there between top-secret technically non-existent missions.
James “Rhodey” Rhodes/Sam Wilson
This is one that I hadn’t thought of before seeing it in the tag set. I’d love to see something building upon Rhodey’s appearance in Falcon and the Winter Solider. I can see one or both of them having to internalized homophobia to overcome given their careers in the military.
Steve Rogers/Howard Stark
This is one of my guilty pleasure pairings and I have so many ideas. The one thing I ask is that if your story includes the years of 1970 or later, that Tony still exists.
1) When money is short, Steve and Bucky resort to prostitution to get by. Steve ends up getting picked up by Howard and it becomes an exclude arrangement in the interest of discretion. Things get awkward when Steve becomes part of Project Rebirth.
2) Howard is just as drawn to Steve during the early phases of Project Rebirth, but knows he can’t start something literally under the Army’s nose. And then after Steve rescues Bucky et al, Howard assumes that Steve and Bucky are boyfriends. Eventually they pull their heads out of their asses and get together.
3) Howard is the one that answers the radio call and tells Steve that the serum means he won’t freeze to death in the water before they can get to him and convinces him to jump out of the Valkyrie before it crashes and then they pull Steve out of the ocean and everyone lives happily ever after.
4) Howard actually finds Steve and the Valkyrie and then they thaw Steve out and everyone lives happily ever after.
5) Steve and Howard were in a relationship in the 1940s, hence Howard’s obsession with finding Steve. Events between 1945 and 2011 play out differently and Howard is still alive when they find Steve. Either Howard and Maria have gotten divorced or Maria is deceased, so Steve and Howard pick up where they left off, much to Tony’s horror.
6) When Steve returns the stones at the end of Endgame, he stays in the past to be with Howard. He picks the year 1971 to make sure that he doesn’t prevent Tony from being born.
7) An Infinity War Fix-It/Endgame AU where changing the past does actually change the future. Steve goes back to 1991 to rescue Bucky, save Howard, and destroy the Tesseract all in one fell swoop. Is takes them a few years to find the Tesseract because it’s with the Scrulls, and probably a couple more to Howard & Tony to figure out how to destroy it. The ripple effect makes for a much more peaceful world as Loki never attacks New York because the tesseract is already destroyed. There’s also the issue of two Steves existing at the same time, especially since one is frozen on the bottom of the ocean. I’ll leave how that is dealt with open to interpretation as long as it’s resolved with a happy ending. I wouldn’t mind seeing Tony/Rhodey as a side pairing, but that’s not a requirement.
8) An Endgame AU where “changing the past doesn’t change the future” means that they can pluck Howard out of the past, bring him to the present, and Tony’s life and memories are exactly the same. If any questions how that’s actually possible, the answer is “because science.” Bonus points if Howard is plucked from a point in time where he’s younger than present-day Tony.
T’Challa/Sam Wilson
Sam is in an out of Wakanda during the time during CW & IW and things develop. Please do not include anything from IW, Endgame, or WF.
Law & Order
Michael Cutter/Cyrus Lupo
The season 19 episode “Knock Off” is the one that had me start to ship these two. Some ideas:
1) What do they get up to sharing a hotel room in Dargerville? Established relationship or first-time is awesome here.
2) They hook up for the first time in Dargerville and have to figure out where they go from there.
3) Anything set after season 20 that shows where their journey goes from there.
Michael Cutter/Jack McCoy
This is one of my all-time favorite ships. Some ideas:
1) When Mike gives Jack the tie pin, it changes things between them and get together.
2) Arguing about the approach to a case leads to them hooking up in one of their offices.
3) They are already an established couple at the start of season 18. All the arguing at work is a cover.
4) Mike is one of Jack’s assistants in the earlier seasons and start dating during this time. When Mike gets promoted and starts trying cases on his own, all the defense attorneys go “well f***k” because from working together, they’re basically the same person in the courtroom and now there’s two of them.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Rocky DeSantos/Adam Park
This is one of my favorite ships and I’m good with pretty much anything you want to give me. My headcanon is that they started dating in 8th grade and never dated anyone else, but I’m good with alternate scenarios as well. I’d also love to see kid fic with these two.
Tommy Oliver/Adam Park
This could be a Tommy dates Adam instead of Kim or Tommy dates Adam instead of Kat after Kim situation. I’d love to see something we’re they’re worried about coming out - either to the team or to their families - and then one they do, everything is fine.
If you want to incorporate later seasons, Tommy & Adam working together to mentor the Dino Thunder Rangers would also be awesome.
Tommy Oliver/Jason Lee Scott
A few ideas, some of which incorporate later seasons:
1) Instead of dating Tommy herself, Kim plays matchmaker to get Tommy & Jason together.
2) Jason has a massive crush on Tommy and leaves for the Peace Conference because it’s too hard watching Tommy & Kim together. When Jason returns and becomes the Gold Ranger, he and Tommy talk about why he left and start dating.
3) In the same vein as the above, Jason leaves for the Peace Conference because of his crush on Tommy. Tommy is already dating Kat when Jason comes back, so he continues to keep his feelings to himself. Tommy & Jason end up having a massive falling out and don’t see each other again until the WF episode “Forever Red.” After the mission, they finally talk about everything and starting dating.
4) Tommy & Jason working together to mentor the Dino Thunder Rangers.
Perry Mason
Hamilton Burger/Perry Mason
I started shipping these two pretty much from the second the show revealed that Ham is gay. And Perry was discharged from the military on a blue card, which means he’s done something with a dude before, but we don’t know how far that went.
A few ideas:
1) While Ham is helping Perry study for the bar exam, they hook up. Maybe they leave it there, maybe it becomes more.
2) When Ham is being blackmailed with the photos of them with another man, Perry is the other man. It could be from one night stand or an actual relationship.
3) A re-telling of season 2 from the perspective of Ham and Perry being secret boyfriends. The blackmail idea ties pretty directly into this one.
4) Ham intervenes to keep Perry from going to jail and things change between them.
5) Ham visits Perry in jail to make sure he’s okay and they get together when Perry gets out.
Power Rangers Dino Charge
Ivan of Zandar/Tyler Navarro
I hate the fact that at the end of Dino Super Charge, Ivan was sent back to his own time, which separates Ivan and Tyler. I’ll take any sort of fix-it fic that either a) pretends that never happened or b) finds a way to reunite them.
Riley Griffin/Chase Randall
These two are my babies and the fact that Michael Taber said that he played Riley as gay with a crush on Chase makes me love them more. I’d love to see a slow burn getting together fic, but really I’ll take anything you want to write.
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Lando Calrissian/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Han and Luke are an established couple and sneak off the Falcon to celebrate the defeat of The Empire. Lando walks in them and they invite him to join him. You can assume that Han and Lando had hooked up at some point in the past if you’d like - if you do run with that up to you if Luke already knew or if he figures it out mid-hookup.
Stargate Atlantis
Evan Lorne/John Sheppard
I just wrote for this pairing for Heart Attack Exchange and was reminded how much I love it. I assume that John and Evan knew each other before the series. Given that Evan was not part of the first wave on Atlantis, I’m assuming that he and John were not together at that time, but I’m open to them having been together pre-Stargate and then getting back together later on. (This was the premise of the story I wrote, but I welcome other perspectives). I’m also open to fics set when they were younger before either had ever heard of the Stargate Program. Or anything dealing with the random stuff that the Pegasus Galaxy throws at them.
Evan Lorne/Rodney McKay
Evan can’t get Rodney out of his head even though the other man annoys him at pretty much every turn. He eventually realizes that Rodney never graduated from “pulling pigtails” phase and takes matters into his own hands.
Evan Lorne/Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
When I was watching “Runner” to try to get Lorne’s voice back for the above mentioned Heart Attack Exchange fic, I was drawn in by the banter between Evan and Rodney. I see this as John and Evan dated back in the day and broke up pre-SGA. Then John and Rodney start dating during season 1 when they have no idea if they’re ever going to see Earth again. Then Evan comes to Atlantis in the second wave of personnel and it ends up becoming a triad.
Rodney McKay/Carson Beckett
Rodney & Carson are an established couple before the expedition ever leaves for Atlantis. Give me any stolen moment during that first season. Bonus for Carson fussing over Rodney after an injury.
Genre thoughts: I love both the fluffiest of fluff and the smuttiest of smut. I don’t expect to see both in the same fic, but if you can make it work, power to you. I have a complicated relationship with angst - it’s fine if there’s some there, but I prefer it conclude with a happy ending. Given that I have multiple fandoms that include teenagers, please make sure everyone is 18+ - and that it’s made clear in the fic - if there’s going to be any smut.
Character death thoughts: Permanently killing a main character is a big fat DNW for me. Refe rencing the death of a minor character is okay, as long as it’s not a primary plot point. Basically - fic opens at a funeral or passing reference to someone that died before the events of the story, okay. Minor character dying in the middle of the story, DNW. Temporary character death is okay, as long as the resurrection occurs at the end of the story. There’s a couple characters that are dead in canon, so that gives you one fix-it option.
Pregnancy/kid fics: Yes please. I adore all sorts of kid fics. While I’m okay with mpreg as a general concept, I don’t want to see it in every fandom or with every ship, so I’ll mention where I’m good with it under the request specific info.
SFW DNWS: on screen-death of any character, permanent death of a major character, angsty endings
NSFW DNWS: dub-con/non-con, extreme kink, body fluids not meant to be involved in sex
Crossover Fandom
Evan Lorne/Cameron Mitchell
I have two ideas here: they’ve been together for years and are used to long-distance because they’ve rarely been stationed together, so Evan going to Atlantis doesn’t change much. Alternatively, they get together after both are working for the SGC and have to learn how to navigate being in different galaxies. Mpreg is okay here in a "weird ancient tech did weird things and now there's a pregnant dude" capacity.
Evan Lorne/Cameron Mitchell/John Sheppard
I love the idea of the three of them going way back and having and on-again, off-again triad over the years where being stationed far apart is the main reason for the off-periods. You can have them navigate a long-distance relationship with Cam on Earth and John and Evan in Atlantis or you can go with an AU where Cam is also in Atlantis. I’m good with either. Mpreg is okay here in a "weird ancient tech did weird things and now there's a pregnant dude" capacity.
Doctor Who
Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness
I just finished watching Nine’s season and I would love to see either a) an AU where Nine doesn’t regenerate and doesn’t leave Jack behind or b) them hooking up after Nine sends Rose back home but before the Daleks start killing everyone.
Harry Potter
Marcus Flint/Percy Weasley
Percy is my favorite and this is a guilty pleasure pairing for me. One thing I do not want to see is any cruelty on Marcus’s part or Percy feeling coerced into a relationship. Despite any public antagonism at Hogwarts, these are two men that actually care about each other.
I’m good with either a secret relationship while they’re at Hogwarts or something where they get together as adults. If you want to include Oliver knowing and thinking Percy is nuts, that would be a nice bonus.
Percy introducing Marcus to the Weasley clan and none of them being sure how to react would be awesome too.
Marcus Flint/Percy Wesley/Oliver Wood
This is another guilty pleasure. I’m assuming that two are together first and bring in the third. Percy/Oliver bringing in Marcus probably makes the most sense, but I’m open to the other alternatives.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers/Howard Stark
I have a few ideas here:
1) Steve and Bucky were a couple before the war, and bring Howard into the relationship
2) Steve starts a secret relationship with Howard - Bucky, who had never thought about Steve that way before gets jealous. The three men eventually come to an agreement.
3) AU: Bucky and Steve were a couple before the war. After Bucky falls, Steve seeks comfort in Howard. Steve does not crash the plane and he and Howard continue their relationship in secret when they come home after the war. They learn that Bucky is still alive when Hydra sends him to kill Howard. They are able to break Bucky free of his programming and when the dust settles, it becomes a three-way relationship, because Steve can’t give either of them up.
4) AU: Steve still crashes the plane, but Howard finds him much sooner. Howard had always suspected that Hydra had tested one of Zola’s attempts to replicate the serum on Bucky, so when Steve survived at the bottom of the ocean, he convinces himself that Bucky survived the fall. Howard and Steve move heaven and Earth to get Bucky back and bring him home.
4) Present Day: Steve gets angry about the “went into the ice a virgin” jokes and makes a comment about how he had threesomes all the time during the war. Tony is horrified in a “oh my god please stop talking about my father’s sex life” way when he figures out who Steve was having those threesomes with.
5) Non-Superhero AU: Howard is a single father. He hires Bucky to help his son Tony learn how to defend himself as the boy gets relentlessly bullied over being smarter and younger than all his classmates. He doesn’t expect to fall in love with Bucky and his boyfriend Steve.
6) Howard, Bucky, & Steve were an established threesome during the war. Howard wasn’t trying the replicate the serum and therefore, Bucky was never sent to kill him, and Howard Stark is still alive when Steve gets found (either Maria has already passed away or she and Howard have divorced - no infidelity please). Tony gets his entire worldview turned upside down when Howard & Steve pick things back up, as it explains Howard’s obsession with Steve. There’s a whole lot of drama when Steve learns about Operation Paperclip, but it leads them to getting Bucky back.
7) Endgame Everyone Lives AU: Steve takes Bucky with him to return the stones, and then they go back to 1971 to be with Howard (just in case “changing the past doesn’t change the future” isn’t completely true, they don’t want to prevent Tony from ever being born).
8) Changing the Past Does Change the Future AU: Howard spent years trying to invent time travel in an attempt to go back and prevent Bucky from falling and Steve from crashing the plane. He stops when Maria gets pregnant with Tony so that he doesn’t prevent his son from being born. After Infinity War, they build on this research to go back, destroy the Tesseract and fix a bunch of other stuff so Howard, Bucky, and Steve get their happily ever after and Tony still exists.
James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Give me anything post-Winter Soldier. Canon divergence (ignoring CW, IW, and Endgame) preferred.
James “Bucky” Barnes/T’Challa
I’d love to see something expanding on Bucky’s time in Wakanda. Please either set it before IW, Endgame, and WF or pretend they don’t exist.
James “Bucky” Barnes/T’ Challa/Sam Wilson
The fugitive Avengers use Wakanda as home base between CW and IW. Things between the three develop after Bucky is fixed and while Sam is there between top-secret technically non-existent missions.
James “Rhodey” Rhodes/Sam Wilson
This is one that I hadn’t thought of before seeing it in the tag set. I’d love to see something building upon Rhodey’s appearance in Falcon and the Winter Solider. I can see one or both of them having to internalized homophobia to overcome given their careers in the military.
Steve Rogers/Howard Stark
This is one of my guilty pleasure pairings and I have so many ideas. The one thing I ask is that if your story includes the years of 1970 or later, that Tony still exists.
1) When money is short, Steve and Bucky resort to prostitution to get by. Steve ends up getting picked up by Howard and it becomes an exclude arrangement in the interest of discretion. Things get awkward when Steve becomes part of Project Rebirth.
2) Howard is just as drawn to Steve during the early phases of Project Rebirth, but knows he can’t start something literally under the Army’s nose. And then after Steve rescues Bucky et al, Howard assumes that Steve and Bucky are boyfriends. Eventually they pull their heads out of their asses and get together.
3) Howard is the one that answers the radio call and tells Steve that the serum means he won’t freeze to death in the water before they can get to him and convinces him to jump out of the Valkyrie before it crashes and then they pull Steve out of the ocean and everyone lives happily ever after.
4) Howard actually finds Steve and the Valkyrie and then they thaw Steve out and everyone lives happily ever after.
5) Steve and Howard were in a relationship in the 1940s, hence Howard’s obsession with finding Steve. Events between 1945 and 2011 play out differently and Howard is still alive when they find Steve. Either Howard and Maria have gotten divorced or Maria is deceased, so Steve and Howard pick up where they left off, much to Tony’s horror.
6) When Steve returns the stones at the end of Endgame, he stays in the past to be with Howard. He picks the year 1971 to make sure that he doesn’t prevent Tony from being born.
7) An Infinity War Fix-It/Endgame AU where changing the past does actually change the future. Steve goes back to 1991 to rescue Bucky, save Howard, and destroy the Tesseract all in one fell swoop. Is takes them a few years to find the Tesseract because it’s with the Scrulls, and probably a couple more to Howard & Tony to figure out how to destroy it. The ripple effect makes for a much more peaceful world as Loki never attacks New York because the tesseract is already destroyed. There’s also the issue of two Steves existing at the same time, especially since one is frozen on the bottom of the ocean. I’ll leave how that is dealt with open to interpretation as long as it’s resolved with a happy ending. I wouldn’t mind seeing Tony/Rhodey as a side pairing, but that’s not a requirement.
8) An Endgame AU where “changing the past doesn’t change the future” means that they can pluck Howard out of the past, bring him to the present, and Tony’s life and memories are exactly the same. If any questions how that’s actually possible, the answer is “because science.” Bonus points if Howard is plucked from a point in time where he’s younger than present-day Tony.
T’Challa/Sam Wilson
Sam is in an out of Wakanda during the time during CW & IW and things develop. Please do not include anything from IW, Endgame, or WF.
Law & Order
Michael Cutter/Cyrus Lupo
The season 19 episode “Knock Off” is the one that had me start to ship these two. Some ideas:
1) What do they get up to sharing a hotel room in Dargerville? Established relationship or first-time is awesome here.
2) They hook up for the first time in Dargerville and have to figure out where they go from there.
3) Anything set after season 20 that shows where their journey goes from there.
Michael Cutter/Jack McCoy
This is one of my all-time favorite ships. Some ideas:
1) When Mike gives Jack the tie pin, it changes things between them and get together.
2) Arguing about the approach to a case leads to them hooking up in one of their offices.
3) They are already an established couple at the start of season 18. All the arguing at work is a cover.
4) Mike is one of Jack’s assistants in the earlier seasons and start dating during this time. When Mike gets promoted and starts trying cases on his own, all the defense attorneys go “well f***k” because from working together, they’re basically the same person in the courtroom and now there’s two of them.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Rocky DeSantos/Adam Park
This is one of my favorite ships and I’m good with pretty much anything you want to give me. My headcanon is that they started dating in 8th grade and never dated anyone else, but I’m good with alternate scenarios as well. I’d also love to see kid fic with these two.
Tommy Oliver/Adam Park
This could be a Tommy dates Adam instead of Kim or Tommy dates Adam instead of Kat after Kim situation. I’d love to see something we’re they’re worried about coming out - either to the team or to their families - and then one they do, everything is fine.
If you want to incorporate later seasons, Tommy & Adam working together to mentor the Dino Thunder Rangers would also be awesome.
Tommy Oliver/Jason Lee Scott
A few ideas, some of which incorporate later seasons:
1) Instead of dating Tommy herself, Kim plays matchmaker to get Tommy & Jason together.
2) Jason has a massive crush on Tommy and leaves for the Peace Conference because it’s too hard watching Tommy & Kim together. When Jason returns and becomes the Gold Ranger, he and Tommy talk about why he left and start dating.
3) In the same vein as the above, Jason leaves for the Peace Conference because of his crush on Tommy. Tommy is already dating Kat when Jason comes back, so he continues to keep his feelings to himself. Tommy & Jason end up having a massive falling out and don’t see each other again until the WF episode “Forever Red.” After the mission, they finally talk about everything and starting dating.
4) Tommy & Jason working together to mentor the Dino Thunder Rangers.
Perry Mason
Hamilton Burger/Perry Mason
I started shipping these two pretty much from the second the show revealed that Ham is gay. And Perry was discharged from the military on a blue card, which means he’s done something with a dude before, but we don’t know how far that went.
A few ideas:
1) While Ham is helping Perry study for the bar exam, they hook up. Maybe they leave it there, maybe it becomes more.
2) When Ham is being blackmailed with the photos of them with another man, Perry is the other man. It could be from one night stand or an actual relationship.
3) A re-telling of season 2 from the perspective of Ham and Perry being secret boyfriends. The blackmail idea ties pretty directly into this one.
4) Ham intervenes to keep Perry from going to jail and things change between them.
5) Ham visits Perry in jail to make sure he’s okay and they get together when Perry gets out.
Power Rangers Dino Charge
Ivan of Zandar/Tyler Navarro
I hate the fact that at the end of Dino Super Charge, Ivan was sent back to his own time, which separates Ivan and Tyler. I’ll take any sort of fix-it fic that either a) pretends that never happened or b) finds a way to reunite them.
Riley Griffin/Chase Randall
These two are my babies and the fact that Michael Taber said that he played Riley as gay with a crush on Chase makes me love them more. I’d love to see a slow burn getting together fic, but really I’ll take anything you want to write.
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Lando Calrissian/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Han and Luke are an established couple and sneak off the Falcon to celebrate the defeat of The Empire. Lando walks in them and they invite him to join him. You can assume that Han and Lando had hooked up at some point in the past if you’d like - if you do run with that up to you if Luke already knew or if he figures it out mid-hookup.
Stargate Atlantis
Evan Lorne/John Sheppard
I just wrote for this pairing for Heart Attack Exchange and was reminded how much I love it. I assume that John and Evan knew each other before the series. Given that Evan was not part of the first wave on Atlantis, I’m assuming that he and John were not together at that time, but I’m open to them having been together pre-Stargate and then getting back together later on. (This was the premise of the story I wrote, but I welcome other perspectives). I’m also open to fics set when they were younger before either had ever heard of the Stargate Program. Or anything dealing with the random stuff that the Pegasus Galaxy throws at them.
Evan Lorne/Rodney McKay
Evan can’t get Rodney out of his head even though the other man annoys him at pretty much every turn. He eventually realizes that Rodney never graduated from “pulling pigtails” phase and takes matters into his own hands.
Evan Lorne/Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
When I was watching “Runner” to try to get Lorne’s voice back for the above mentioned Heart Attack Exchange fic, I was drawn in by the banter between Evan and Rodney. I see this as John and Evan dated back in the day and broke up pre-SGA. Then John and Rodney start dating during season 1 when they have no idea if they’re ever going to see Earth again. Then Evan comes to Atlantis in the second wave of personnel and it ends up becoming a triad.
Rodney McKay/Carson Beckett
Rodney & Carson are an established couple before the expedition ever leaves for Atlantis. Give me any stolen moment during that first season. Bonus for Carson fussing over Rodney after an injury.