marmolita | hockey holidays 2020 dear author letter

(emerging from the void to post a dear author letter but hi everyone! this is almost exactly the same as last year's letter)

Dear Author, I am super pumped for all the ships this year! I put some specifics for each ship in the signup and duplicated down below, but here are my general fanfic likes/dislikes. Please refer to the signup for prompts and DNWs, and I'm sorry in advance for making this so long!

I enjoy all sorts of fic, from PWP to fluffy friendship fic, as long it's the characters I like, though I do prefer romance and I definitely enjoy smut. One of the things I love about hockey RPF in particular is that it's all very masculine? Like I really enjoy that these guys can be tough hockey dudes, but still be expressive about their emotions. You know, like, get hit in the face with a puck, come right back out to play, and give your bros a lot of hugs and tell them how great they are.

For shippy fic, I prefer for it to be getting together/first time rather than established relationship. Exception: two people are in an established relationship and they're getting together with a third person for the first time.

Some tropes I like:

oh no he's hot
forced to share a bed
and they were roommates
arranged marriage/marriage of convenience
fake dating/fake married/fake relationship
didn't realize the person I was messaging on a hookup app was you
didn't realize that we were already basically dating/everyone else thought we were dating
we were just hooking up as bros but I caught feelings
hooking up as bros, without the feelings
snowed in/canadian shack/somehow stuck together
loser's forfeit (losing team sends a guy to get fucked by the winning team)
winner's room (winning team designates a guy or first star of the game gets to select someone from the losing team to fuck)
everyone messed around in juniors
rookie/veteran with a side of "wow I always admired you and now I get to actually talk to you"
we're drunk and happy we won, wait how did we end up in this position?
woke up in someone else's bed
social media drama
friends to lovers
enemies to lovers
enemies to friends to lovers or enemies to lovers to friends+lovers
enemies to enemies who fuck
relationship of convenience (for example: I'm a sub and you're the only dom, or I'm an omega going into heat and you're the only handy alpha)
you were feeling down/nervous and I made you feel better with sex
5+1 things
lost a bet so now we're doing some ridiculous activity together
drinking/party games ("never have I ever" reveals someone's surprising secret, I dare you to make out, etc.)
sex as a reward (e.g. hat trick blow jobs)
something made them do it
management made them do it

I would like to avoid non-hockey AUs, but here are some AUs I like provided they still involve the players playing hockey:

BDSM AU (everyone is dom/sub)
kneeling verse, the one where rookies kneel for veteran players
A/B/O, but only if the omegas are not feminized and there's no breeding kink/discussion of mpreg (beyond "we need a condom"). Also I prefer not to refer to the characters' dynamics as if they were a different person? Like "his omega wanted to whine" as opposed to "he wanted to whine. I also prefer not to have the characters refer to each other as "alpha" or "omega" during sex or purr/chirp. I'm fine with different genital configurations for alphas and omegas.
soulmark/soulmate but preferably on the less sappy end and the more subversion end, like, someone being worried that if people find out about their soulmark they'll get in trouble, or the two people not realizing that they have each other's soulmark, or the people who are soulmates are also rivals, or something
magical realism

Other stuff I like in fic:

happy endings!
cheerfully promiscuous characters/ethical sluts
supportive friends/wingmen, esp if they also tease character A about their feelings for character B
texting/social media usage where appropriate
character is afraid that if the public finds out they're bi/gay/etc. they'll have problems with their career (but everything turns out okay in the end)
romantic tension, like, the moment when one character turns around and the other is RIGHT THERE and OH MY GOD ARE THEY GOING TO KISS?!
competency kink
bisexual characters

Smutty likes (apologies in advance if this list contains stuff that is a squick for you, I put the tamer stuff up front):

DIRTY TALK but in a positive way (like talking about how good it feels, how hot the person is, what character A is going to do to character B)
masturbation
sexting
blow jobs
desperate to come
coming in pants
frottage
hand jobs
athletic fucking
manhandling
biological imperative for sex (heat, sex pollen, etc)
rimming (I will admit to enjoying the Nate-MacKinnon-loves-eating-ass trope), but please no kissing right after rimming
praising the other person's body
public sex or semi-public sex or other type of sex where they might be discovered
voyeurism/exhibitionism in general
putting someone on display
gangbang/group sex/orgy
facials
sex toy under clothes
overstimulation
collar + leash
crawling
face slapping
bondage
orgasm delay
making the other person beg/ask nicely for what they want
breathplay, though idk if that makes any sense at all for these ships
.....omorashi, which is literally the only bathroom-related thing I enjoy, the rest is all DNW

Smutty dislikes, beyond the stuff that's in my hard DNW list (these are just things I don't particularly care for, not active squicks):

creampie
excessive come eating
ass to mouth
come inflation
food-related kinks
humiliation of any type other than the "you're such a slut for my cock" type (I guess I enjoy positive humiliation/degrading praise, but I don't like just actual negative insulting humiliation)
gagging (as in, gagging on a dick, not like actual gags, those are fine)
feminization

DNW list copypasta'd from my signup: Genderbends, issuefic, non-hockey AUs, woobies, anything pregnancy-related, drug abuse, vomit, bathroom stuff, animals getting hurt, child death, character death, underage if character is younger than 15, straight up noncon (dubcon is fine), daddy kink/ageplay

Wow, okay, that was a lot, sorry! I am really super excited to see whatever you come up with, even if it doesn't involve anything on my lists here!

Here's a duplicate of my requests if anyone is looking to treat:

Sebastian Aho/Roope Hintz

I love both these guys, but the main thing that bumps them onto my request list is oh my god they were roommates! Apparently they were roommates often in international competition when they were younger, and I love the idea of either them getting together during one of these events or staying friends since then and getting together later in their NHL careers or at worlds or wherever. Friends to lovers, friends with benefits to lovers, friends to friends with benefits, all of those are good.

I'm also always down for winner's room scenarios where one of them picks the other as his reward, whether it's a first time, or it's a "wow we haven't done this since world juniors" or whatever!

Extra piles of bonus points if there are other teammates teasing them/being confidantes. ALSO: I'm always down for any magical realism kinda AU where Sebastian Aho is a magical creature or has magical powers.

Sidney Crosby/Nathan MacKinnon I love the hero-worship-turned-mentor relationship between these two, so anything playing off that is great! Likes: BDSM AU, in particular with sub!Nate. Kneeling verse. Didn't-notice-they-were-boyfriends. Age gap content, for example with Sid feeling like he's too old for Nate and being reluctant to admit his feelings. Awkward coming out where there's concern about the public finding out and maybe they don't know that each other is into dudes. Drunken makeouts. Nate being hot for Sid since he was a teenager. Nate calling Sid "bro" excessively and Sid being like "kids these days" but also charmed. LITERALLY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT "I <3 SID" GIF. Wrestling in a hotel room results in hookups instead of injuries for once. I'm also good with background/past Nate/Jo Drouin too if you want to go there.

.Ryan Graves/Cale Makar

I love these guys and I especially love:

* how Gravy being Cale's D-partner worked out so well for both of them

* Cale's surprisingly deep voice and Gravy's surprisingly high voice? which makes me love any kind of trope inversion for them where their roles are surprising

* height difference

but mostly I'm into them being D partners and maybe road roomies and generally being both newbies, relatively speaking, even though Gravy is older. This ship I feel like also lends itself well to magical realism AUs because lbr Gravy looks like some kind of supernatural being.

Miro Heiskanen/Roope Hintz

gotta love the finnish mafia and I especially love Miro and Roope! I like how they seem like buddies who probably chirp each other a lot, and how they're both young and working hard. I'd love anything about them, whether it's soft and fluffy or slow burn or pwp or whatever! On particular idea I like for them, but by all means you don't need to do this because I love other things too, would be a BDSM AU where Miro is a sub and Roope is a dom and Roope is jealous because the team assigned Miro to a veteran dom his rookie season, and maybe Roope thinks at first it's just that he doesn't like the idea of Miro having to be assigned a dom, but really it's because he wants him for himself? Another thing that would be great for them would be some kind of magical realism au! But like I said I'm also totally here for any trope, be it fake dating, accidental grindr hookup, they were roommates, whatever!

Nick Caamano/Jason Robertson

MY BABIES I LOVE THEM <3 Literally anything about these guys would be amazing, whether shippy or gen. As long as they're being their cheerful, smiley selves!

Jason Dickinson/Denis Gurianov/Roope Hintz

I really like the idea of the farm team line having some liney bonding...(I would put a smirk emoji here but I'm typing on a laptop.)

Mitch Marner/John Tavares

I really like the idea of this ship just because JT seems like such a solid, steady kind of guy (some might even call him *gasp* boring haha), and Mitch is kind of all over the place chaotic and refuses to eat his vegetables, but they're both elite talent. I feel like as a ship this lends itself well to "oh no he's hot" or fake dating or pining or 5+1 things. Another idea I'd love is Mitch deciding he's going to seduce JT and going about it in the most ridiculous way and JT just has no idea that that's what's going on because it never occurred to him that Mitch would do such a thing, and meanwhile the rest of the team is just enjoying the entertainment.

Leon Draisaitl/Connor McDavid

POWER DUO drai and davo <3333 I love how they just seem like good buddies and they're great together on the ice and they're bearing the weight of the franchise on their shoulders. I'm super interested in friends to lovers kind of stuff for them, especially where Davo is just a complete disaster about it. Leon also seems like a total softie off ice who likes to leave kissy face and boys holding hands emojis on his buddies' instagram posts, so, that kind of soft dynamic would be great. (But of course they can also have angst and be fighty about games.)

If you happened to want to go there, I'm also interested in OT4 with them and their two girlfriends, esp if it's just a happy polycule that starts with their girls being girlfriends with each other and Connor and Leon trying to pretend they're not into each other.