Dear Fandom Growth creator,

[mary_the_gardener]

thank you so much for offering one of my rare fandoms! I am super excited to read something for any of them! So don't worry too much, I'm easy to please and obviously fic-starved, I'm sure I'll love whatever you'll write for me!

If you want to know what I like, here's a list of things I like to read in fanfics:

fake dating, arranged marriage, wrongnumber fics,and they were roommates, there was only one bed, mutual or onesided pining, unresolved sexual tension, flirting, hopelessly oblivious characters, misunderstandings and miscommunication, family dynamics, friendship and friendship-related angst, metaphors, introspection and internal monologues, ace and/or aro characters, alternate dimensions and time travelling, time jumps and messed up timelines, missing scenes, questioning of one's principles, epiphanies, road trips, casefics, cooking and food vlogs, magical realism, modern with magic aus, coven aus, historical aus, hospital aus, carnival and masquerade balls, soulmates, doppelganger stories and uncanny circumstances, recovery from physical injuries or only partial recovery and how one mentally deals with it, flowers symbolism and metaphors or similes or anything that has to do with flowers in general, extra bonus if it's daffodils or wisteria.

And here's a list of things that I'm ok with, Opt-In let's say:

treats, unusual povs (outisder pov, 1st and 2nd person...), unconventional fanworks & unusual formats (podfics, essays, articles, texting or socmed fics, things that require a work skin, interactive fiction...), songfics, a work written in: italian, french, spanish or russian, open, ambiguous or unhappy endings


General DNWS:


romantic marriage proposals and weddings, MPreg, prolonged and repeated adultery, Mafia AUs and Darkfic in general, Royalty Aus

Not really a hard DNW but something that I don't appreciate much is when a fic ends with the "Do you want to be my girlfriend/boyfriend?" question. Anything less explicit and formal is okay though. Same goes for fluff: established relationship fic where characters are just being sappy to each other or cuddling fluffy animals? Not really my kind of jam. By this I do not mean that I absolutely don't want any of that in my gift, but just that I'd prefer if it wasn't the main focus of the fic.

About smut:

If you want to write smut, I'm open to it for any of my requests.

What I do no not like: lingerie kink; women being passive and not reciprocating; unprotected sex outside of a longterm, exclusive relationship; daddy kink; sex pollen; somnophilia; sex pollen.

What I do like: talk during sex (not necessarily dirty talk but also just communication about how they feel, or even random chatting); spanking; appreciations of backs, extra points if they're nicely bendy; characters being very eager to give head; appreciation of forearms.

Fandoms section

Enquête à cœur ouvert

I quite like Jan and think he’s a good guy deep down. Of course for half of the episodes we’re led to think he’s responsible for Anna’s death, and so the little details showing how he truly loved her are hard to see. But they’re there, and I really wish to see more of what they had together. He seems quite down to earth, while Anna was in a phase in which following her dream was the most important thing. I wonder if maybe she could have convinced him to go to NY with her, or if he could have convinced her to abort but to remain with him. Would they get a kid later on? Would they make it in NY or would they have to come back to Belgium with no success? Could Anna convert him into a dreamer too, or maybe they would meet in the middle, make it work.


Los Espejos Venecianos


I’m particularly fascinated by the mirrors and how they work, both in reality and in Giovanni’s dreams. I’d love more stories involving them!!
The same goes for Beatrice: how were her last days? Or her life before when she was healthy even, did she plan to hide her death well in advance? What was her relationship with the people that hid her body behind the mirror? How did she feel, knowing she was the last of her family, was it a heavy weight, would she have lived her life differently, had there been another descendant?


Avril Lavigne RPF

I ship this pairing so much and I can’t believe it’s so hard to find any work about them. I love how even they used to joke about the relationship between them, cue the vid where Avril holds up a cardboard cutout of herself and tells Evan that he can kiss it. And I love how they kept collaborating during the years, showing how deep their friendship is.

So, in brief, I’m starved and I will love literally anything you write about them, both / and & are ok even. A look into how Evan feels about her various marriages would be interesting!



Detective Anna


First of all, some general thoughts:

I think they tied up the first series pretty well, the only thing I’m not convinced of is the role of Alice. How did she know Yakov’s safe house? And was she looking for the file of Mr Brown there? Who sent her? She said to Anna that she’ll tell her who she truly is and then got interrupted, and I really feel like there’s an untold story there. Is she even really the same girl that was locked in a cell for years? Or is she someone else who took her place.
As for the second series… I’d rather pretend that the “One month later” scene at the end of episode 40 doesn’t exist. My reason for that is that I liked Doctor Scryabin. I simply refuse to let them ruin his character like that! And Polina being Krutin made total sense. Yes, of course there’s the open issue of the box buried in the snow, but I think they should have solved it in some other way.

About Nina’s death… We can pretend she's actually dead, though I honestly don’t mind her having faked it, even if I can’t phantom how she did it. Maybe Yakov helped her somehow? I understand that it was the only way for her to avoid the prison, but it was also a way to free Yakov of his marriage and at the same time granting a future to her son. So it was convenient for both of them… And in that case, if Yakov helped her fake it, would he tell Anna?
I think Nina’s character is quite well rounded: in the beginning she seems rather flat, and I can’t deny that I didn’t like her at all, but how can I not like her when I see her desperation, how she’s trapped in the grip of the Prince? A position she consciously got herself in to save Yakov. Yes, she’s often ruthless and cold blooded, but she has to be like that to survive.
She also told Anna that in Saint Petersburg she was the one helping Yakov, and I would like to see some of her adventures at court and how they fell in love. And also how Yakov lost at that fatal game of cards. Why was he even playing? Was it just a game or was there something else behind it, was it part of a case? Was Nina already involved with the Prince?
So that's what I'm interested in about Nina/Yakov.
If you want to dwell on their relationship while in Zatonsk I'd prefer if it were in Nina's pov. It must have been really hard for her to see him get closer to Anna and farther from her, and being unable to do anything about it because of how she's in debt with the Prince.

 

For Anna/Ivan, as I said, I really like him: he won me over the moment he broke into Anna's room and started screaming things at her. He kept a detached facade but it was obvious that he was doing it for her, that he knew she would react and get herself together. Which means that he cared. He cared enough to go all the way to her house and put up that scene. And then he cared enough to offer to tie himself to her forever to grant her freedom from her father. I really would have liked for them to go to Turkestan together. Fake/pretend relationship is one of my fave tropes.

About Anna/Polina: I know that Polina is Krutin, but listen, she's hot and Anna is hot, just imagine what a power couple they'd make!

Victor & Pyotr: I really love their dynamics, how Victor is always ready to rescue his brother from the trouble he gets himself into. Their personalities are extremely different but their blood tie is stronger than that.

Anton is one of my favourite characters. You can call him naive but I’d call him pure. He’s always such a gentleman, and in the first season I often thought that he deserved Anna way more than Yakov did! He never belittled her, never doubted her and her world. And then, in the second season we find out that he proposed to her, and we didn't get to see it!? Outrageous! He deserves the girl!! Can’t she see how husband material he is!?

Furthermore, he’s extremely loyal; when asked to write a report to incriminate Yakov, he writes one praising and thanking him instead. And when Yakov disappears, he desperately searches for him, you can see how heartbroken he is!
I would love either a romantic or platonic story of the two. On the romantic side, my heart races every time they hug, and I totally lost it when in the episode about the werewolf they make a comment about Yakov smelling his garlic breath, as if they regularly kissed. On the friendship side, I would love some extra angst about how mad at Yakov he is when he reappears out of nowhere at the beginning of season 2. Yakov always wears a poker face, but how did he feel about it?

I really hope you liked my prompts and found them inspiring, and whatever you'll make of it I'll be

your happy receiver

Mary_the_gardener