Dear Candy Hearts Exchange Author 2024

 (Work in progress, details are all in my signup. Sorry if the formatting is wild again, c/ping from Gdocs)

Requests

1. MASH (TV)

   1. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce & Daniel Pierce (MASH)

   2. "Trapper" John McIntyre/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

   3. B.J. Hunnicutt/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (MASH)

   4. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

I have no idea how I got so deep into this show that ended forty years ago, but boy howdy did it get its claws deep into me. I like all of the romantic options I’ve listed, and am fine with either canon timeline fics or post-canon (less interested in pre-canon AUs where they knew each other before the show, with the exception of Trapper/Hawkeye since in book and movie canon they did meet while playing football in college). For Hawkeye and his dad, anything goes. I love their relationship so much, and I love how openly Hawkeye adores his dad (and how mutual the feeling clearly is, from how Hawkeye talks about him). Any point on the timeline for them is great.

Smut welcome!

DNW: Heavy focus on internalized homophobia, particularly with Trapper (I know this was a big trope in the fandom for a while but it’s not something I’m interested in); substantial usage of book or movie canon (a little for flavor is fine but I’m not well-versed in either); Daniel Pierce being homophobic or otherwise bigoted; ship-bashing of any stripe, unless it’s Hawkeye talking shit about Margaret’s various exes as he does in canon.

2. Watchmen (Comic)

   1. Dan Dreiberg/Laurie Juspeczyk/Rorschach (Watchmen comic)

   2. Dan Dreiberg/Rorschach (Watchmen Comic)

One of the fandoms of my heart. I love these gross weird crazy people. I’m cool with any point on the timeline; anything from pre-Keene crime fighting antics to mid-GN to post-canon fix-it. 

Smut welcome!

DNW: Fics centering on Rorschach’s death (if you don’t want to retcon, just set it before that point); OT3 fic where Laurie is “the sensible one” who basically moms Dan and Rorschach, rather than an equal partnership.

3. 千と千尋の神隠し | Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away (2001)

   1. Haku | Nigihayami Kohakunushi & Ogino Chihiro (Spirited Away)

   2. Haku | Nigihayami Kohakunushi/Ogino Chihiro (Spirited Away)

   3. Kamajii & Rin (Spirited Away)

   4. Ogino Chihiro & Rin (Spirited Away)

I rewatched this movie twice within about a month with two different friend groups who hadn’t seen it, and gosh, I forgot how wonderful it was. What a rich, luscious world. I’d love a fic that explores more about life at the bathhouse; maybe Chihiro’s initial trip to the spirit world is a little bit longer, or she makes her way back, either as a child or as an adult, and we get to see her with Haku or Lin. (I’m fine with either a romantic or platonic take on Chihiro and Haku’s relationship!) Or maybe you want to look at Kamajii and Lin’s relationship, which seems to be her closest one aside from Chihiro (also a good opportunity to see more bathhouse life!). 

DNW: The popular headcanon/fan theory that Chihiro’s family were actually in the spirit world for years; I’m cool with up to a month, but would rather it not be longer than that. 

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