Dear Writer (Unsent Letters Exchange)

Dear Writer, 

Thank you for participating in this exchange. It is my first time, I am very excited to receive your gift. I hope you get something you love in return. Firstly, I’m pretty easy osy, so though I've written some ideas for each fandom or pairing in my letter, please feel free to go in another direction if you want to. They are only there to help if you need inspiration. I read widely in fandom!

If you want to write an entirely epistolary story, please feel free.

DNW:  

• pwp, though mentions of and allusions to intimacy are just fine (I prefer M ratings to E)

• pregnancy and pregnancy related themes

• character bashing 

• a/b/o dynamics

General Likes: 

• For this exchange I would prefer canon or canon-adjacent/divergent settings rather than AUs

• I enjoy dark fics, so dark themes are welcome apart from anything pregnancy related. MCD is fine, ditto angst, whump, H/C, etc

• Fluff is also equally appreciated! As is humour, character study, pining (requited or otherwise)

• For romantic pairings I’d prefer it to remain flirty/innuendo/mentions of or soft focus rather than detailed smut

• For all the pairings except Lucy West & Family, Seven of Nine & Naomi Wildman, Rodney McKay & Jeannie Miller, or Dave Sheppard & John Sheppard, feel free to write either / or & (romance or friendship) if you wish even when I have specified otherwise. I picked one way or the other to fit all my nominations in, but the preferences are mild

STARGATE 

Any & Any: this was the only pairing I nominated with a specific idea. I had the episode Letters from Pegasus (Stargate Atlantis) in mind here, especially the background characters whose video messages we never got to watch. 

Dave Sheppard & John Sheppard: it would be nice to read one of them reaching out to the other after their father’s funeral. 

John Sheppard & Samantha Carter: maybe Sam has some advice from John before the expedition leaves, when they first make contact with Earth again, or after Sam leaves Atlantis? Or maybe communications (official or otherwise) when Sam first arrives on Atlantis. Teething problems etc. 

Rodney McKay/John Sheppard: one of my biggest ships. John writes to Rodney when he gets the parasite in his head. One of them is sent back to earth. Emails during the return. Go nuts! 

Rodney McKay & Jeannie Miller: again, a reconnection might be nice, and/or letters they wrote each other when they weren’t talking. Both of them are very welcome to be angry and wrong. 

Rodney McKay & Radek Zelenka: there is so much potential here. Arguing via email on Atlantis, disagreements in published papers, private emails discussing the wellbeing of the scientists in Atlantis, maybe Radek tries to comfort Rodney after the death of Drs Gall and Abrams or after Doranda? 

Ronon Dex/Teyla Emmagan/Rodney McKay/John Sheppard: they could have a private chat on an Atlantis intranet etc, or maybe you could write a mission report from each of them that paints a different picture of a mission? 

Teyla Emmagan/Elizabeth Weir: maybe Teyla writes Elizabeth a letter after she is lost to the replicators or adrift in space? 

Vala Mal Doran & George Hammond: I know they missed each other in canon, but if you fudge the timeline a little there’s a lot of potential for comedy and/or genuine affection here. 

Vala Mal Doran & none: I can only imagine the things Vala would write or record during her first few months at the SGC...I’m thinking she gets a hold of a vidcam and starts “documenting” things that frustrate Daniel Jackson to the end of his rope! 

 

FALLOUT 3 

Butch DeLoria & Female Lone Wanderer: during their time in the vault or after, maybe the FLW encourages his affinity for hair styling, maybe he apologises for being a jerk in a roundabout way?  

Moira Brown/Female Lone Wanderer: perhaps moira keeps more extensive notes on the FLW during their research for the wasteland survivial guide? Or maybe the FLW sends letters back to her on her travels. 

Mr Burke/Female Lone Wanderer: canonically he sends her some very intense letters. Maybe you could expand on them? Maybe she sends some back? Affirming or rebuking.

Lucy West & Family: the Lone Wanderer takes Lucy’s letters to her family in Arefu. Maybe you’d be interested in writing them? I’m particularly interested in her observations of the people in Moriarty’s Saloon. 

Female Lone Wanderer/Nova: I always imagine the FLW to be a little dazzled by Nova’s personality and profession. Maybe she spends the night with her and leaves her a letter in the morning when she leaves? Or maybe they write to each other a lot. 

Bittercup/Female Lone Wanderer: I like to think that the FLW brings Bittercup some joy somehow! 

Amata Almodovar & Female Lone Wanderer: whenever I play Fallout 3 I always imagine the FLW misses her best friend so much, especially when she finds out just how lonely and inhospitable the wasteland is compared to the boring safety of the vault. Exciting, but dangerous. 

FALLOUT NEW VEGAS 

Craig Boone/Female Courier: I ship these two hard. The Courier having lost all sense of who she is, Boone having lost all sense of who he was. Maybe they tentatively build a romantic relationship as the Courier travels that comes to something after the events at Hoover Dam? 

Rose of Sharon Cassidy/Female Courier: maybe Cass returns to the caravan business, and she and the Courier leave letters for each other at the Mojave Outpost whenever they pass through? 

Female Courier/Veronica Santangelo: maybe Veronica keeps records of her travels with the Courier that she keeps for posterity? 

Female Courier/Ulysses: things change for both of them after the events of the divide. There’s a lot to unpack between them if Ulysses survives, otherwise maybe the Courier has a few things she wishes she could have said. 

Female Courier/Sunny Smiles: Sunny was the first person to show the Courier the ropes when she woke up after being shot in the head. Perhaps they become fast friends and keep in touch, with the potential for a romance to bloom? 

 

STAR TREK VOYAGER 

Seven of Nine & Naomi Wildman: Seven and Naomi’s relationship is fundamental to me in understanding her growth as a human post liberation from the Borg. Maybe Naomi initiates a correspondence as a kid that lasts even until the events of Picard? Or maybe Seven creates a series of lessons for Naomi when she wants to become the captrain’s assistant? 

Kathryn Janeway & Seven of Nine: I imagine them keeping in touch after Voyager gets back to Earth. 

Seven of Nine/B’Elanna Torres: enemies to lovers. ^^ Snippy written communications?

Seven of Nine & Kes: they don’t really meet in canon, so maybe Seven is haunted by the hole left behind after she starts to become a part of the crew? Perhaps Janeway suggest she documents her experiences, and she records things as letters to Kes, a woman she wil never know but with whom she shares a lot.

 

SKYRIM 

Cicero & Listener: Cicero’s journals are something else. You could expand on the theme of falling into paranoia and have Cicero write half-finished letters to the Listener that get darker every time? 

Cicero & The Night Mother: Cicero tries to communicate with the Night Mother through letters that he burns at her sarcophagus when his attempts at verbal communication fail. 

 

ORIGINAL WORKS 

Astronaut Trapped in Derelict Space Station & None (OW): I am absolutely enamoured with stories where someone is lost and alone in space. Maybe they document their daily life for posterity, maybe they write letters for everyone they miss, maybe they are rescued, maybe not. 

Post-Apocalypse Survivor & Other Survivors: something that jumped into my head when I saw this pairing was someone leaving notes for other people to find, a one way communication where to get supplies, pass by a hazard safely, places to avoid etc. Something about the human spirit enduring through hard times.


Thank you for whatever you choose to do. I hope you have fun creating.

LG 🖤