raiyana

Dearest Chocolatier,

Welcome! I Hope you find a few ingredients within this pantry to your liking, enabling you to create something amazingly tasty!

Getting the icky stuff out of the way:
DNW

Character bashing. This is my biggie; the complexity of some of these characters is what draws me to them. (I'm A-OK with one character criticising another's actions, or characters arguing or disliking one another, but please no shoehorning of personal dislikes.
Perfect Ainur. Well-intentioned but fallible is fine, but I'm not on board with “they can do no wrong."
Crack fic
2^nd person narrator
MPREG
Unrequested kinks (including but not limited to BDSM, scat/waterworks, emetophilia)
A/B/O
24/7 D/S
Incest(parent/child AND sibling/sibling)
Some ships: Celebrimbor/Annatar, Legolas/Gimli(romantic only - platonic bros is fine), Bagginshield

Generally, my tastebuds sing for

Character complexity and conflicting motivations
Unusual perspectives, original characters (especially female characters) and textual ghosts
Unreliable narrators and quirky narrative structures – for example, epistolary, fragmented narratives, stories told through found documents, framing devices, stories told out of chronological order
Philosophical musings
Exploring the outer edges of the map

For the chosen fandoms/pairings, I've tried to keep to broad strokes, but feel free to mix up new flavours for me to savour! :D

The Hobbit - Book

Dwalin/Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit - Tolkien)

One of my darlings. Give me loyalty, behind-the-scenes, Dwarf culture/worldbuilding/history

Dwalin/Nori (The Hobbit - Tolkien)

He's a guard, he's a thief - how do they work together? Another fave, I love the cheekiness of it, the possibility for play and seriousness in equal measures.

Dís/Dís's Spouse (The Hobbit - Tolkien)

Recently I've come to the realisation that Dís' spouse being genderfluid/nb/transfem is A+, so if you'd like to explore that idea with me, I'd adore it greatly :D

Original Raven Character & Original Dwarf Character (The Hobbit - Tolkien)

The Ravens and Durin's Folk go way back - show me Before the Fall caretaking, first meetings, or post-reclamation rebuilding of an old alliance!

The Hobbit - Movies

Tauriel/Original Female Character

Personally, I ship her with a co-guard, or with the harp-lady from Rivendell, but I'm honestly happy for there being just a bit more femslash in the world! Give me Tauriel being a competent warrior, wooing her ladylove, or otherwise being her badass self!

Meludir/Original Mirkwood Elf
Meludir/Original Mirkwood Elf/Original Mirkwood Elf

I like Meludir and he needs more love - or lover(s)? Go wild with Mirkwood worldbuilding and such here :D
Silmarillion

Ecthelion of the Fountain/Glorfindel

Gondolin the Hidden City... I want to know more! (Bonus points for smooching)

Finrod & Haleth

How did they get to a point where they'd spend someone else's party debating mortality and bickering like old friends? I prefer this to be non-shippy.

Ilmarë/Thuringwethil

Two very different Ladies of Night - or are they? What brings them together, tears them apart - how do they live beyond canon?

Celebrimbor & Celegorm & Curufin

Celegorm and Curufin are arguably the greatest influences in Celebrimbor's life - what is their relationship like as he grows (Please do not give me boring Curufin was a Terrible Dad trope)? Pre- or post-Nargothrond as you prefer, or even Aman-settings would be lovely.

Meássë/Thuringwethil

Two Evil Lesbians - I love. Meássë is such a blank slate, so fill out the map here - feel free to make it a post-Ilmarë break-up, too if it suits.

Alatar/Pallando

Why does Gandalf claim not to remember their names? Why does Saruman not count them at all (are they dead? by his hand?) - in short, Where Are The Blues? (now it almost sounds like a murder mystery)

Celebrimbor | Telperinquar & Orodreth | Artaresto

These boys both need A Friend, and luckily they've got each other...

Haleth of the Haladin/Original Female Character

Butch middle-aged Haleth is My Jam. Sho her a bit of love, loyalty, and longing, and I'm all over that.

Gwindor/Finduilas (Silmarillion)

They Deserved Better

Lord of the Rings - book

Éomer Éadig/Lothíriel

She might be nothing more than a name and lineage in canon, but that's what's so great about Lothíriel - she can be any flavour of OC. Give me good Queen, pre-war Princess, anything inbetween - tell me how she met Éomer, how they loved, lived, laughed?

Original Shieldmaiden of Rohan/Original Shieldmaiden of Rohan

Bad-ass lesbian warriors are win.

Boromir (Son of Denethor II)/Théodred

They just make sense to me; so similar, yet separate - how do they meet and fall in love, what consequences do they face, etc. etc. World-building galore.