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Spy vs Spy, “Round and Round” by Selena Gomez, music video

I swear, you could make a gorgeous movie out of the potential in this video. Budapest is a beautiful city to play spy vs. spy in. What kind of mission is Selena's character on? Who's chasing her? Who's the spy she's trying to meet up with?

Heroine/Bride- “Something Bad” by Miranda Lambert, songfic

This song is just fun. Tell me some more about these ladies saying "fuck it" to heteronormativity and heading to New Orleans with a bunch of cash and one unused wedding dress, for sale to a good owner. Why is one leaving her wedding? Why do they need to get out of town fast? Did they already know each other? Did they plan this?

Thomas Gabriel/Mai Linh- Live Free or Die Hard

Please please pretty please give me backstory. There are literally two fics for them and there’s nothing to them. I want to know when they got together and why he loves her, because her death sent this cool, collected, calculating bastard off the goddamn rails. How does their mission push them together and pull them apart and draw their passion? Gabriel obviously believes he’s the good guy doing necessary work and only asking for a reasonable return on his investment and time, and I don’t think he’d get so personal with anyone who disagreed with that— although I have no doubt he’d be attracted to someone who would challenge him, since he can buy henchmen by the dozens. I can’t help comparing Mai’s character to Maggie Q’s Nikita; are they similar? Did they come from a similar black ops background, trained to be deadly but rejected by the very people they gave their lives for? Did he realize his feelings for her when someone grabbed Mai and said "drop the gun or she dies" and he first realized that thought scared him to death (right before she  kicked the shit out of whoever took her hostage, obviously; I don't think she would tolerate that for long) and Thomas realized he didn't want to keep planning his future without her? (Okay, this is the fic I would love to see, definitely) TELL ME EVERYTHINGGGGGGG.

Thank you so much for writing! <3

-baroqueriot

I would love to see some pre-series investigative journalism from my favorite reporting team, with adventure, blog posts, and all. I especially love Shaun and George's codependent wonderful relationship, so if they happened to sneak a few kisses (...or more...) while on the job, I would love to see it!

Avengers Assemble:

I LOVE LADIES. I love these Carol Danvers and Jessica Drew in particular. I'd love to see them at any time point in the Avengers Assemble series (though I must say Kelly Sue's run has been my favorite) and especially if it's just bantery, everyday best friends stuff. Bonus points if other Marvel ladies like Jessica Jones, Natasha Romanoff, Jessica Walters, Kate Bishop, etc make an appearance. I don't really romantic-ship Carol and Jess and I'd prefer BFF-ness from them over anything sexual (but I totally do see them as heterosexual life partners, since Carol already has a cat and I can imagine them becoming old cat ladies together and totally judging every dude they go out with.)

Wizards of Waverly Place:

Give me all the bickering codependence of Alex and Justin always having each other's back that you have. More specifically, I would love to see something post-finale, since the movie reeeeeeally didn't address what they're up to at all and I'd like to see some of what that life is like. I will take anything rated G to NC-17 (like, if you want to write just siblings who are the cause and solution of all of each other's problems? EXCELLENT. If your story includes steamy sexytimes in Justin's office at WizTech? ALSO EXCELLENT.) If you REALLY want to take it all the way, I'd adore an epic of Alex getting mixed up in some wizard shadiness and Justin finding out more about the upper echelons of the wizarding world, and them colluding on what ends up being a huge confrontation with the Wizard Council about how they divide up families and keep an iron grip on magic just to keep absolute control of the whole of the wizard world. But that's not a requirement, that's just a big dream of mine to read.

Justified:

What I would primarily like, if possible, is rule 63!Boyd/Raylan, with both of them being ladies and femslash galore, and focusing on how they're two sides of the same coin. They've taken different paths but they're so alike it hurts, and the frustration of being a woman in a man's world (whether that's the world of the US Marshals or the world of running crime in Harlan) shapes them and brings them closer together as it also pushes them apart. The thing I like about them genderswapping is taking those personalities and have them facing the world from a female perspective, so a focus on that would be great (in short: I'm not just doing this for the lesbian sexytimes, though those are not out of the question.)

If that's a bit too much of a challenge (and I get it, it's a big order!) I'd like to see something dealing with Rachel Brooks' past and times she learned how to get some respect as a black woman in a lot of very white, very male-dominated areas and move up into the position she's in now (which is a position where she gets to reflect a lot on the fuckups of the white men around her, I'm sure!)

These are just some ideas; I love Justified and I love how it shows a really complex world in an area that has been generally very simplified, when really it has a lot of complicated dynamics related to race, gender, socioeconomic status, family roots, and a host of other issues. Anything that shows that world of constant intersectional negotiations would be a fascinating read.

Only other thing I can think of is that I'm pretty turned off by noncon/dubcon, so I'd appreciate none of that, but otherwise, go wild.

Hugs, kisses, and Yuletime glee,

baroqueriot

the next best thing to all our dreams, pg-13, 4460 words.
On the night before the Wizard Competition, Alex and Justin face the scary things in the the darkness around them and the darkness within them. Together, of course: is there any other way to do it?