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[toujours_nigel]

You know that meme that goes around sometimes where you post your five favorite kinks and then five favorite couples, and it's like a wish into the universe to see if anybody will write it for you? Let's make it a little more interactive.

Comment here if you want to play, and I will give you 3-6 couples that I associate with you, and you make an entry in your journal talking about those couples and fics that you wish the universe would write for you.

moetushie gave me Ralph & Andrew, Ralph/Laurie, Alexander the Great/Hephaistion.

• Ralph & Andrew. Oh boy. This one sort of snuck up on me, really it did. I am actually very finicky about reading them as a couple (I don't like it being during the war, I don't like Laurie being dead or at least Laurie's death as the precipitating thing, I don't like blah blah blah) but as friends or FWBs I will read them in any context, at any age, in any year, in any relationship, in any stage of their friendship. Just gimme these two talking, getting each other, being idiotic, being open, just. Friendship! \o/ Optional wry Alec and/or Laurie much appreciated but not essential. Just gimme the Ralph & Andrew Show.
That said, lilliburlero andnaraht have both been spotted talking about writing Ralph & Andrew religious non-conformism fic, and I am on that like sorshe on hilsa. *g*

• Ralph/Laurie. I like rather a lot of what is out there, but what I'd like is a bitchy, long, complicated story about them a few years on. naraht wrote an excellent duology for two Yuletides running, and there's other stuff too, so that desire's pretty well met. I'd also like school-fic, or more precisely school-fic that I don't have to write. There's something very interesting for me in school romances, esp. ones in as messed-up as Ralph's seems to be. Basically, pre- or post-canon stories are my jam, but I'm not into sugary fluff, so that used to be a problem, which is rapidly becoming less of one. I also prescribe to the All-WW2-Stories-are-the-same-Universe camp, so all of the cross-overs are nice.


•  Alexander/Hephaistion. OTP. OTP of OTPs. The only other thing I ship this hard is Remus/Sirius and that I came to at an impressionable age. I love it especially because it can exist in a polyamorous circle, without denigrating (in canon, fandom is its own monster) other loves or relationships: Hephaistion is just Alexander's person, and that's different. I'd like it there was a story that addressed that, instead of making Heph either jealous or aloof about Alexander's various lovers.