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I have added many 'Any Nominated X medium' freeforms. They are meant to give you some extra flexibility. However, below is a list of suggestions for mediums under those umbrellas that I like and that work well across all or most my requests! You are more than welcome to create for any of these mediums even if I goofed and the one you like is missing from a request. Please know that for literally everything I request, I am happy with writing, writing + art, writing + gifset, writing + typography or any combination thereof!

Thank you for creating for me! :)

General, NSFW, art likes & DNWs

General likes
- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- Meetcutes and meet-uglies: characters who will end up as friends or lovers meeting under the worst circumstances or hating each other at first sight
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- Relationships turning on a dime: strangers becoming allies, meet-uglies, a former enemy becoming the only one you can trust, "enemy of my enemy" trope.
- Reveals of every kind: identity, power reveals, etc! Any kind of dramatic story beat where relationships rapidly switch polarity or gain new context
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- Robots, androids, cyborgs, artificial beings
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after, characters just fooling around in bed)
- Genre blends, such as putting something IN SPACE, or a touch of urban fantasy
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
- Format: unconventional formats such as IF or drabbles and drabble sequences, 1st, 2nd, 3rd person POV

General DNWs
Gore, noncon, heavy crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma

NSFW likes
- I prefer levels of explicit detail typical for the M rating!
- Oral sex, handjobs or frottage and half/fully-clothed sex are great!
- For penetrative sex, if prep is called for, I prefer prep to not be a huge focus
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- characters feeling conflicted, "but I shouldn't"
- Non-formalised BDSM or dom/sub dynamics
- Consensual but not safe or sane
- The Eroticism of the Machine
- not inherently kinky things (e.g. cyborg robotics repair) being written and perceived by the characters as something uncomfortably kinky

NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this), bottoming angst as a major part of the story

Art likes
Different art styles, from realistic to stylised to pixel art or manga cover vibes, organic and sketchy styles, mixed media art. Dramatic poses, contrasting colours, hair, flying cloaks and coattails, wings, giving characters beautiful wings for no reason and with no explanation, just do it.

Art DNWs
Graphic sex, eye horror, needles and things going into skin (cyborg augments are ok)

These are mediums I welcome for all fandoms. You can use them as opt-ins in addition to (!) the mediums listed for each fandom request.

Length Opt-In: 300 minimum words per fic
Length Opt-In: Drabble (100 Words Exactly)
Length Opt-In: One Poem Minimum of Any Nominated Style of Poetry
Length Opt-In: Triple Drabble (300 Words Exactly)
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
Medium Opt-In: Art - Adaptation Concept Art
Medium Opt-In: Art - Any Technical Drawing
Medium Opt-In: Art - Book Cover
Medium Opt-In: Art - Character Possessions
Medium Opt-In: Art - Coloring Page
Medium Opt-In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt-In: Art - Conspiracy Board
Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Advertisement
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Art
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Excerpts from a Character's Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Instant Messaging
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Cover
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Spread
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Propaganda Poster
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Stage Performance Poster
Medium Opt-In: Art - Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes
Medium Opt-In: Art - Landscape
Medium Opt-In: Art - Location Interior Design
Medium Opt-In: Art - Papercraft - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Art - Pin-up Poster of Character
Medium Opt-In: Art - Playing Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Point - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Art - Point - Pixel Art
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Art
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Gift Fic (with author's permission)
Medium Opt-In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt-In: Art - Storyboard
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tool Schematic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Weapon Schematics
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Fanmix/FST (Fan Soundtrack)
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Original Fan Music
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Any Nominated Illustrated Text Medium
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Dating App/Dating Site Profile
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Illustrated Fic
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Advertisement
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Bestiary
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Blog Post
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook Page
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Article
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Spread
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Article
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scrapbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Tabloid Article
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Textbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Ship Schematic (ship as in a relationship)
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Gifset & Writing) - In-Universe Blog Post
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Gifset & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Article
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Gifset & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Article
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Gifset & Writing) - In-Universe Social Media
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Gifset & Writing) - In-Universe Tabloid Article
Medium Opt-In: Instructions - TTRPG rules
Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Cocktail Recipe
Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Mocktail Recipe
Medium Opt-In: Poetry - Any Nominated Style of Poetry
Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Magazine Spread
Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Medical Report
Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Personal Documents
Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Technical Code or Design Specifications
Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - Zine Page
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - A Softer World style panels
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Any Nominated Art Tag
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Card Game Reskin
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Amigurumi or Softie
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Emojis
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Gifset
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Infographic
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Spreadsheet
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Spreadsheet - Expense Report
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: City
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: City or Country or World
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: Drawn or CC-Licensed Map + Annotations Or Map Related Notes
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Dress-up Paper Doll
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Sticker Page Layout
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fake Trailer
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt-In: Video - In-Universe Advertisement
Medium Opt-In: Video - In-Universe Book or Movie Review
Medium Opt-In: Video - In-Universe Interview
Medium Opt-In: Video - In-Universe Travel Vid
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Action Figure Packaging Bio
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Book or Movie Review
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Bureaucratic Paperwork
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Classified Documents
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Diary Entry
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Field Report
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Interview
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Magazine Article
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Magazine Spread
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Medical Report
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Mission Report
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Newspaper Article
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Personal Documents
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Screenplay
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Tabloid Article
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Technical Code or Design Specifications
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Textbook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - List of random facts
Medium Opt-In: Writing - List of things (character) is not allowed to do
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Meta
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Gifts In This Fandom (W/ Permission!)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Art
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Screenplay
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Script
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Ship Manifesto (the relationship kind)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Symmetrina
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Theatre Script - Play

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Fandom-specific section

Invisible Inc.

PROMPTS

First off, canon divergencies and wacky AUs (ranging from "for want of a nail" to "What if this character actually worked for the enemy") are all welcome to facilitate creative fills!
Action figure packaging bio: Maybe there was one for Rush during her auglete days and its price as a collectible skyrocketed after she became infamous as an anticorporate terrorist. Or maybe there was a release of an action figure for each of the PEIA following the blockbuster The Istanbul Four movie! Legend has it Central terminated the last agent who was caught with an Olivia collectible in their desk, but the action figure is still around somewhere.
Book/movie review: could be more reviews of The Istanbul Four or of The Data Vampires, Draco's edgy semiautobiographical bestseller!
Bureaucratic paperwork & workplace documentation: what does it look like for the megacorps? Alternately, what does it look like for Invisible Inc, who are totally a regular and legal freelance intelligence agency except the missions frequently have life or death stakes?
Instant messaging: informal agent message chains! (for security reasons they certainly have their own app for this)
Fan letters: the famous/infamous agents (e.g. Rush, Prism, Shalem, Draco) dealing with fanmail would be hilarious
In-universe RPF: ditto
True crime podcast transcript: I'd love to see some amateur podcasters reporting on isoteric clues that the PEIA were never executed and Gladstone is still out there somewhere, and Draco's stint as a serial killer is likewise perfect inspo for this
Transcript of sports match commentary: That Rush datalog? That was great, give me more
Logic grid puzzle: maybe the solution to ending a mission without losing anyone, or Banks trying to figure out how to ask Nika out on a date (because she would 100% overthink this)
Complaint form: could be for a corporate workplace, just something documenting the woes of Steve the Sysadmin or Spencer the Spec Ops. An agency complaint form would also be hilarious. Nika keeps kneecapping people who move in her peripheral vision. Sharp keeps magnetising office supplies. Tony keeps "upgrading" other agents' personal equipment with variable results. Internationale keeps leaving pamphlets and then lying badly about it. How very dare.
Conspiracy Board: SO MUCH potential. Is Olivia Gladstone still alive? Did the captured PEIA agents really get executed or is that just what the corps WANT you to believe? Who was really behind the "unscheduled demolitions" of the corporate HQs? Is a sentient AI running all of Subnet? Do the corps operate neural redaction black site prisons that none of the inmates who leave ever remember? Who or what is Shopcat?
Isometric rooms/cityscapes: I'd love to see what the agent rooms look like (if they live on-site, which some might), but a corporate isometric room could also be fun in a subtle corporate dystopian horror kind of way.
Floorplan/architectural style drawing: corporate facility layout and heist prep!!! Or, I'd love to see the agency HQ. Some fanon mentions the corridors are deliberately designed to be confusing.
Weapon schematics & tool schematics: I'd love to see drawings of what various augments and gizmos (cloaks, shocktraps, etc.) look like in detail! Opting into the visual equivalent of technobabble if that helps.
List of things character is not allowed to do: could be cheeky, like "Dr. Xu is not allowed to open up and 'tweak' company equipment", or more serious, in the style of corporate warnings a-la "DO NOT ALLOW NEAR TERMINALS"
In-universe TTRPG: in which the agents blow off some steam. Shenanigans and minmaxing ensue. One of the agents brings loaded dice or otherwise gets way too deeply into it? Nika finally gets in touch with her emotions? Oh and I feel like Monst3r should be DM. I could also see Incognita being DM with disturbing results. (Maybe this kind of TTRPG campaign is a way for her to study human emotions?)
Mission report, medical report: big fan of big drama told through dry paperwork
Spreadsheets: expense report: maybe something post-canon showing the agency struggling to stay afloat?
Psychological evaluation: I have ideas for two flavours of this. One, kind of morbidly funny: Draco or Rush or Derek have to pass a psych eval to enlist for the PEIA. Nonsense ensues. Two: whump aftermath! Give me an agent who's been through the wringer and is now trying to prove that they're still fit for work! Could be canonical events like the aftermath of Olivia's capture and rescue, or the HQ raid, or a regular mission-gone-wrong in spectacular ways.
AITA and similar Reddit posts: "AITA for shocktrapping the kitchen cupboard to spite my annoying coworker?" At one point Central and/or Monst3r have to get involved because agents having petty fights on Reddit is becoming a security risk
Anything involving the Neural Uplink Interface: I'd just love to see this explored more and some of these out-there mediums feel perfect for it. How much do the agents share senses (if at all)? Do they share pain? Are there automatic limiters? Are there any issues with 'bleedover' of experiences and identity?
Agents covered in blood

Tactical Breach Wizards

PROMPTS

First off, canon divergencies and wacky AUs (ranging from "for want of a nail" to "What if this character actually worked for the enemy") are all welcome to facilitate creative fills! Especially for this canon you are also welcome to go nuts on time travel, alternate timeline and Surprise: It Was All a Prophetic Vision shenanigans
Two words: COSTUME DESIGN! Begging you for more confidence outfits for the wizards. Or, alternately, low-confidence outfits: show us the sad boring get-up Jen wears to cases when she's not quite feeling up to it. Alternately, something designed for stealth. Or maybe a costume for the version of the character who's affiliated with, say, the Druid Mafia or some other faction. Or maybe for if they're SUPER EVIL!
In that same vein, an online dress-up game or a papercraft dress-up doll would be absolutely amazing
Stained Glass window art featuring Sabin would be kickass! Or even one for each of the wizards who save Medil and the world, created much to their embarrassment
Murdle: I'd love to see Jen or Jen & company solving a mystery together! Could be pre-canon Jen PI days or post-canon, where she's teaming up with Banks. Maybe Rion also helps out - having someone to sniff out danger AND look scary is sure to come in useful!
Spell or ritual instructions: need I say more? show me what it takes to get that magic work, or show one of them developing a brand new spell! Pressed botanicals or botanical illustrations could also be involved in this.
Conspiracy board: I'd love something very similar to the 'conspiracy board' in the actual game, but in a different context! Maybe for Jen's and Banks's PI cases? Or maybe Rion trying to hunt down one of his hitman targets.
Interactive Fiction could be such a canon-flavoured and fun unconventional way to structure a fic. Since I also opt into script format fic, you could write it in the style of the canon dialogues :)
Isometric room would be a great format to show the wizard workbenches or living quarters in more detail! For cityscapes, I'd love something showing how different regions look
Crossword puzzle with cryptic clues would just be really fun for this
Podcast or radio show transcript: maybe something reporting on the team's (or Liv's team's) failures and successes
Cocktail or mocktail recipe for each of them would be awesome! Maybe the mocktail could also double as an in-universe magic potion of some kind? Maybe some kind of spell for which you need to recreate the "essence" of a person using cocktail/mocktail ingredients
A logic grid puzzle feels like a fun way to translate the puzzle nature of the gameplay to a different format. Maybe you need to "solve" a tactical situation to clear a room, but it's all in the form of clues
In-universe mythology: I'd love to see a bit more of what (ancient) history and the Craft looked like in this world
The Gang Plays TTRPG!
Liv's Gang plays TTRPG. Chaos ensues.
Not medium-specific but I'd love to see the Liv & Zan dynamic explored more in whatever format you think works best...
Tarot card art would be fantastic <3
The thing with Zan vs. Liv and him coming back to the lair to (briefly) find the team wiped out. It's so good ahhh. I'd love anything more about that scene and moment, using Zan's foresight, working through ways he could still (fail) to save them...
Rion at work :3( His epilogue options are assassinating the Reactor CEO or assassinating the head of the Chapel in collaboration with Dall and I'd love to see either in more detail. Rion & Dall in particular is a very interesting and underexplored dyanmic