DYW 2023

[rainingover]

Firstly I want to say a big thank you to you, dear writer, for writing something for me. This fest is one of my favourite yearly traditions and I'm sure to love anything you choose to write :).

Below is my general likes and DNWs. For my three fandom requests, I have written a bit about what I love about them, and I have given some prompts in case you'd like some inspiration! Treats are also very welcome here :D. 

(rainingover on ao3)

Likes:

Found families
Enemies-to-lovers
Friends-to-lovers
Mutual pining
Character studies & introspection
Non-linear storytelling
Bittersweet or melancholy stories
UST (& eventually resolved UST)
Developing relationships
Bed-sharing
Hurt/comfort
Missing scenes
Love disguised as sex
Road-trip & travel stories
 

NSFW likes:

First time with a partner (& learning what makes sex with someone good)
Body worship
Edging
Fingers in mouths
Sex-pollen
Sex in public places
Non-penetrative sex not being treated as "lesser" than penetrative sex

DNWs:

Non-con
Mpreg
Scat/watersports
Explicit descriptions of gore/injuries
Character bashing or extreme humiliation

Requests:

奇蹟 | Kiseki: Dear to Me

Ai Di (Kiseki: Dear To Me) Chen Yi (Kiseki: Dear To Me)

This show is so great, and these two especially have got me hooked. Orphans adopted into the same gang as kids who grew up together by each other's side and are fiercely protective of each other. It's like catnip to me! Of course, throw in some seemingly unrequited pining on Ai Di's part, and Chen Yi's inability to see past his admiration for the boss who brought them up, and it's even more delicious.

I love how softly and carefully Chen Yi treats Ai Di (making sure he doesn't hit his head when he gets in the car! Worrying about him at the slightest hint of danger!) even though he can clearly hold his own (and then some- the scene where he's revving the engine of the van when there's a man tied up just in front of the wheels was quite scary).

I love that Chen Yi was there the minute Ai Di and Zong Yi came out of prison, like he'd been waiting every day for 4 years to see him again. Chen Yi has clearly spent a lot of his life trying to protect people and be the best he can be to please their boss, trying to be stoic and stoney faced, and not too emotional, and I love that now that Ai Di is out of prison he's trying to be the one to let his guard down and talk. 

I really love Ai Di's character (and his outfits)! You can really feel how much and how helplessly he loves Chen Yi, and the almost physically painful longing that comes with being so in love with someone you're certain doesn't love you back the same way. My heart absolutely broke for him when he realised drunk Chen Yi didn't realise it was him on the bed at first the night they slept together, and now that Chen Yi is taking initiative and responding back to Ai Di's attempts to use flirting as a deflection technique in a way that's new and unexpected, I love how clearly we can see Ai Di getting so ruffled by it. He doesn't know what to do! He'd become so resigned to unrequited love that when the person he loves is trying to take him to bed, he's unsettled and angry and confused. Poor baby! 

Anyway, as we still have 3 episodes to go as of sign ups closing, I have no idea what is in store for these two (although I really hope it's a happy ending). I will be watching until the end of the season, so please feel free to include anything that happens between episodes 11-13 in your fic!

Some Prompts if you'd like any:

- I'd love to read something that bridges the birthdays Ai Di spent alone and the (future) ones he spends with Chen Yi. 

- What happened between their night together and Ai Di coming out of prison? What did Chen Yi think when he found out Ai Di had volunteered to go into prison to protect Zong Yi? Has he spent 4 years planning the perfect spicy meal to feed Ai Di upon his release? How many times has he thought about that one night?

- I really love Ai Di and Zong Yi's friendship, so would love to read something about them and how they gossip about their respective boyfriends (in a world where they end up with Chen Yi and Ze Rui since the jury is still out on that as of sign ups time). 

- If you want to write something NSFW, give me soft and gentle Chen Yi taking care of his spiky, headstrong boyfriend! Or I'd equally love to read about these two unable to keep their hands off each other once they're together, fucking on jobs and in cars on their way to jobs and maybe even on that big table. It was definitely big enough!

- I enjoy AUs and canon-divergence fics either so if that is your jam please go ahead!


哥哥你别跑 | Stay With Me (TV 2023) 

Wu Bi (Stay With Me), Su Yu (Stay With Me)

My heart is BROKEN. That ending hurt me so badly, but all hope isn't lost, because these two will always find their way back together, and if anyone can nurse their boyfriend back to perfect health it's Su Yu (I mean, he could tutor Wu Bi into getting into a top-tier university, so he can do anything).

This show was so precious to me this year. The found-family feelings I got watching Su Yu and his dad make a new family with Duo and her mom were so special, and then how they welcomed Wu Bi in with open arms too was perfect. The way that Su Yu and Wu Bi's budding romance was portrayed was fantastic. How much they love each other, how much faith they have in each other and the respect they have for each other is beautiful. They're both very headstrong characters, and they'd endure so much for each other. They deserve the world!

I love Su Yu's gentle insistence that Wu Bi can do and be anything he wants to be. I love how headstrong Wu Bi is and how determined he is to live his life the way he wants (with Su Yu). I like that, while Su Yu is shown to get jealous easily, he trusts Su Yu and is only bratty every so often ;). Oh, and I love that Su Yu knows he can bribe Wu Bi into studying with "rewards".

I haven't read the novel and I also haven't watched Addicted (yet!) so all my knowledge of this canon comes entirely from Stay With Me, so if you are writing a story about it for me (thank you thank you!) I would prefer it to be based solely on the drama.

Some prompts if you'd like any:

- Any missing scenes of their developing relationship would be lovely. When exactly do they realise they're not just friends? Was there apprehension about blurring that line or did it just come so naturally to them that it happened without them really knowing? When did they stop sleeping in their own beds?

- If you'd like to write fic set after the season ends, I'd love to read about Su Yu treating Wu Bi's physical therapy like he treated his studying for the entrance exams: as a rewards system! Wu Bi might not feel like getting out of bed and doing his physical therapy to improve his strength, but he will definitely try his damned hardest if Su Yu will be naked at the end of it, etc etc. :D

- How much they dote on Duo (and battle for her affection) is adorable, and I just know they're going to be super protective of her as she grows older and maybe starts dating herself! I would love fic about her bringing her future significant other home from uni to meet her family, including her "big bro's who aren't biologically her bro's and, oh yeah, they're married, and they will grill you." Give me older Wu Bi and Su Yu being over-protective of Duo, and also being domestic and married and disgustingly in love.

- If you'd like to write canon-divergence fic, I would love to see how things would be different if they hadn't met as teenagers, and had gone into adulthood harbouring those bad feelings about each other and what happened between their parents. Give me doctor Su Yu and ruthless businessman Wu Bin navigating their attraction!


RIIZE (Band)  

Song Eunseok (RIIZE) Park Wonbin (RIIZE)

I was disappointed and a bit concerned when I learnt Sungchan and Taro were being removed from NCT to debut in a brand new group, but I shouldn't have been because Riize are a GIFT and they keep on giving. They're such a fun and interesting group, and they all seem really supportive of each other.

I find it very fun that they're a group of all introverts except for Sungchan and Taro, and I especially am drawn to Eunseok and Wonbin's personalities (plus they're jaw-droopingly gorgeous). 

I would basically read any pairing combo for this group but I have chosen to request Eunseok and Wonbin because I find them super intriguing together. We don't have tons of "moments" yet but what we do have tends to worm into my brain and stay there.

Eunseok really seems to push Wonbin's laughter button, and he is also happy to go along with whatever Wonbin wants him to do (like dancing with the zips up the legs of his training pants completely undone). They may not be the most tactile members of the group together, but that first group Live, which Wonbin spent draped over Eunseok, playing with his hair and being all up in his space, is still in my brain. I need more!

Some prompts if you'd like any:

- If you'd like to write canon universe, I'd love to read about how they felt debuting and how it strengthened their relationship as trainees and friends. Eunseok is a year older than Wonbin, and as one of the hyung line, did this change how he approached debut? If you want to go shippy, I am a sucker for any story about characters relying on each other and falling in love during stressful, life-changing moments. 

- If you'd like to write NSFW fic, I'd also love to read more about Wonbin unzipping Eunseok's pants in the training room when they're alone.

- For AU prompts, I am a total sucker for stories where characters are friends with benefits or start hooking up as a casual thing, and then one (or both) of them catches feelings and I think that could work super well for these two! Or make them guitarists in rival bands, or put them in space, or... Just go wild!

- I enjoy OT3s and poly fic, so if you want to add one of the other members into the mix with these two I am not opposed to that at all (but not as a love triangle, please!!)