My plan is to put everything here so that whoever's assigned to me has everything in one place. Also if I get any questions via email or in the comments, I will add answers and clarifications to this post.
My preference right now is for some version of my crossover polycule or Ptilly, being the things that are least common to find fic for, but I realise they're kinda niche, so if they're not your jam, please feel free to write whatever does float your boat from my requests!
I have three fandom specific requests (Voyager, Discovery & The Witcher) and then my ridiculous OT4 crossover, and a slightly random other crossover request: the rest of the letter is the tropes and shit I do and don't like and some of my favourite fandoms if you wanted to go nuts with crossovers. Besides the DNWs, obviously, I mostly want a story that you loved to write because I think those are the stories that are most fun to read. I have provided some ideas of tropes and kinks etc that I love, just in case you find that helpful, but nothing in that is mandatory, so if you have an idea you're excited about that that doesn't hit my DNWs, go for it. I will also do my best to keep an eye on my email and I'm very open to clarifying via the mods! I did my best, but I'm painfully aware that I ramble, so it's fine to double check if you can't find the answer you need. I haven't been well so I know I probably haven't done as good a job of all this as I'd like!
I'd also like to make it clear that you can mix and match as far as I'm concerned. If you want to smush together two of my prompts and create something new, I'm 100% on board. For example if you wanted to send Buffy to Discovery with Dawn in tow and have them make friends with Po while Po conspires to get Tilly and Pike together? Go absolutely nuts. I will be delighted to see you having fun tbqh.
I've tried to use at least a couple of the slightly more generic additional tags for each prompt, so you should have some freedom; obviously there are limits to what can be added, so if you're like "but floot, I want more ideas!" then I added almost all the prompts I have any serious interest in to the (several, I know, I have a problem) Pike/Tilly requests I made, so if you need inspiration, almost all the ones I care about (with a couple of exceptions that simply don't apply to them) are there. As far as I'm concerned, any I used for any of the prompts are fair game for any of the other prompts, as long as you're also following the rules of the exchange so you don't get in trouble with the mods!
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If I mention a ship as a DNW, you can use it as a past or ending relationship if it helps the plot, but if I have mentioned it, I dislike the ship enough I really don't care to see it "on screen".
Feel free to mix and match franchises and fandoms, whether that's time travel shenanigans or AUs or whatever other reason you can come up with to put the combo you like on screen together. I absolutely fucking love crossovers! There's more detail about my favourite shows and shit further down the letter.
This is probably a bit of a mess at the moment, for which I sincerely apologise, but I figure having a letter and giving the url is better than nothing. I've been super unwell this week and I'm doing everything last minute. I will do my best to iron out the kinks as quickly as I can, but in the meantime I really am sorry. You should be able to find most specific stuff by doing a page search for it, eg for Witcher/Discovery/Voyager/SNW/Crossover/OT4.
The fave kinks & tropes, DNWs, and my enthusiasm for crossovers and the like remains the same for everything! Some of this letter was filched from my Star Trek holiday exchange letter because I haven't had the brainpower to edit it properly, but rest assured my feelings about crossovers etc apply equally to all fandoms, so if something is a little bit Trekky and you're writing something entirely different, just ignore the trek flavour and assume everything else applies.
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Discovery:
Pike/Tilly my accidental brain rot. Friends, flirt buddies, fellow nerds, romance, ambiguous, all of the above.
Tilly has gorgeous hair and I'm pretty much up for any positive version of Chris helping her with it, playing with it, having Thoughts™ about it. (Chris is also obviously not unfamiliar with hair products (affectionate) and I am here for his hair getting appreciated too 🤭)
I frankly am into an embarrassingly high proportion of the tag set when it comes to these dorks, and may do several requests just to cover all the ones I most love so you have the widest possible pool to choose from.
There's a lovely headcanon I picked up from a previous mane event story about Chris learning how to braid hair because the girls had all the best horse toys and he had to prove he had the stuff before he was allowed to play.
I'm also here for Chris learning how to do this shit from scratch because that's also adorable.
As someone who's had long curly hair I have massive hair envy of Tilly and also know how much work it takes, especially if you're ill or injured or busy.
I love also the idea of Po causing shenanigans, whether she's trying to match make or she's just generally getting Chris and Tilly into good trouble somehow (whether that also leads to Ptilly is up to you).
I'm up for so many of the additional tags with these two basically, and while I'll love you forever if you give me some romantic Ptilly, I also just adore them vibing as friends or having an ambiguously intimate relationship.
Mundane/non Starfleet AUs also float my boat, or for that matter fantasy/magical.
I also love the platonic relationships on the ship; Tilly makes everyone better, so if you want to throw in her being amazing in that respect, go for it; also fucking adore Saru, and the Michael/Spock sibling dynamic is great. Nhan my beloved. The core Disco S2+ crew are all basically good with me, the only people I feel the urge to exclude have died by the end of (or long before!) Brother.
If you want background ships, I love Keyla/Joann, Saru/Michael is intriguing, Bryce/Rhys is cute, and I don't think there are any canon ships I have a problem with, so like if you wanna throw in the space husbands for example, I'm gonna be on board. None of them are required but if you use them, I'll be a happy bunny.
I love Book and Grudge, I have a deep soft spot for Admiral Vance, I quite enjoy Laira and T'Rina. I'll also mention that I love a good crossover, and I enjoy a lot of the SFA characters if you're keen on 32rd century as a setting. I have seen through episode 8 (I won't get to see 9-10 for a whole), so if you wanted to incorporate any aspects of that somehow I'm good with it. (More details in the Star Trek franchises part of this letter, search for SFA!)
specific related DNW: Tilly being called Sylvia except in official contexts, Chris just not giving a fuck that she's an ensign (I do think you can find ways to make a relationship on the ship credible, but if he's just like 'no big deal' about it, it breaks his character for me, I simply don't believe he wouldn't care)
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Star Trek Crossover Fandom:
Chakotay/Pike/Janeway/Tilly, in really any combination, is my beloved crossover polycule 🤣 listen I have no chill. Weird time travel, post canon, massive AU, or just pretend that they're in the same time frame, I don't at all mind if you're smushing them together somehow.
Both Tilly and Kathryn have gorgeous hair, and Chris is um fond of his hair products also 🤣
I will also be happy with any relationship within this polycule; it started because I love CJ but also really enjoyed Kathryn with Chris, Chris/Chakotay was a dark horse "oh they really work" ship, then I got caught by the Ptilly bug, and was like how would Tilly relate to Kathryn and Chakotay, so I'm genuinely open to all iterations here, there are no "eh not into it" options I can think of. (Please as per DNWs don't shit on my OTPs (Pike/Tilly and Chakotay/Janeway) to make your iteration come out. You can write something that doesn't involve those pairings, but don't do the "and they will never ever happen!" in order to do so. They're my OTPs, be nice to them!)
If you want Tilly to have had experiences in the future and then travel back to be a part of this? That 100% works for me, and I have read and loved multiple fics based around that possibility.
Any of the potential couples or OT3s? Awesome. I'm also here for a specific relationship being in the foreground with polycule stuff happening in the background, pre-relationship fics, or with a polycule where they're dating in various iterations not as a whole foursome, or just taking whichever are your favourites and having fun with that and ignoring the rest; I struggle to think of a version of "some selection of these people are in a relationship and it's cute" where I'd be disappointed, so go where the muse takes you.
(Also here for past Julian/Chakotay, long since had a little headcanon where they met and had a ridiculously tender one night stand on DS9 before Chakotay headed off into the badlands.)
specific related DNW: Tilly being called Sylvia except in official contexts, C7, Pike just not giving a shit that Tilly is an ensign if she's still in his chain of command, excessive amounts of Neelix, kiboshing of either Ptilly or JC; you don't have to write either ship as focus (or at all), but I don't want to read a fic that just squelches either ship.
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Witcher
Jaskier & Yen I adore in all iterations, from spiky "we're not friends how dare you even suggest it (but if someone else comes for you I'll end them)" through to full on romantic pairing, and Yen has fucking gorgeous hair. Also let's be real there's a non-zero chance Jaskier is a fussy little shit about his hair 🤭
Would absolutely love Jaskier surprising Yen by being good at hair - maybe it's from caring for Geralt, maybe it's because he had sisters/cousins/friends with long hair as a kid.
That said, would also enjoy Jaskier learning how to take care of her hair as a demonstration of love and intimacy, whether that's friendly or romantic or what.
If you wanna go poly, I don't mind a sprinkling of Radskier.
DNW: any ships besides them as the focus, there are other ships I like but I do not get enough Yenskier so that's what I'm after.
Voyager:
I'm a classicist, I love me some CJ, platonic, romantic, sexual, ambiguous, a secret fifth option that is some combination of the above.
Team as family is lovely in Voyager; if you want to throw in background relationships I love any combo of Harry/Tom/B'Elanna. I also really love Tuvok, he's my favourite Vulcan, and his friendship with Kathryn is *chef kiss* Naomi Wildman is one of my favourite child characters ever and if you ever wanted to throw in a Naomi & Seven scene, I'd love it.
(Also here for past Julian/Chakotay, long since had a little headcanon where they met and had a ridiculously tender one night stand on DS9 before Chakotay headed off into the badlands.)
specific related DNW: C7, too much screen time for Neelix
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Crossover
These are just ships and relationships I find interesting and think would be fun to see more of. These imo are also particularly ripe for combining with some other prompt if you feel so inclined.
Tilly and Nyota would be the best of friends, and while they're not an endgame ship for me, I do think they would be super adorable. I also love the idea of two curly headed people who nonetheless have very different hair textures learning how to help each other out.
Buffy x anyone is just always interesting. Spuffy is an endgame ship for me, but I'm also always interested in what if it turns out all the magic and resurrections made her immortal? Is Spike still around or is she grieving and struggling to make connections? Or are they just roaming the galaxy having threesomes with random hotties? Lots of possibilities! I'm also very here for a Buffy who's just been randomly dumped in a place and time she didn't expect to be and making friends and helping out because that's who she is. (I think Tilly would be able to get her back to her own time if so!) Buffy obviously has her gorgeous shampoo commercial hair so the possibilities for hair stuff are very evident.
Po is a joyous addition to any fic, there's a reason I have her tagged in multiple prompts. I'd love to see her and Buffy bond over having too much responsibility at too early an age.
My brain is conking out on me but basically all the ships and friendships here tickle my brain some kind of way. If you want clarification, please hit me up!
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DS9:
Garashir in any form is my best beloved and my preference for this fandom! Garak being his I am just a humble tailor self and Julian my favourite weird little nerd. Any way you cook it, I love them.
I do also have a soft spot for Julian/Jadzia, not as endgame but as a past relationship or stop along the way, bonus points if Jadzia calls out his massive Garak crush 🤣 but I also love them as FWB or a meaningful relationship that just wasn't meant to last but they come out of as friends
Fucking adore Sisko (and have a soft spot for Jake, their father/son vibe, and for Ben's relationship with Kasidy) other faves include Jadzia and Kira
(Also here for past Julian/Chakotay, long since had a little headcanon where they met and had a ridiculously tender one night stand on DS9 before Chakotay headed off into the badlands.)
specific related DNW: Julian/Ezri, Garak/Ziyal
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SNW:
I don't really have a specific ship I am that into on SNW as to request them, but I really love the characters; if you can swing it in some way, bringing SNW characters into any fic is a plus for me. I'd also be okay with you bringing other franchise characters onto Pike's Enterprise if that works for your story.
Favourites besides Pike (duh) are Joseph, Una, Nyota, Pelia, Scotty, La'an, Kirk. Probably the closest thing I have to a pure SNW ship is Kirk/La'an, not to the point of requesting it as the main focus, but if you wanna include that, I'm good with it. Little soft spot for Spuhura (TOS also). If you want to go polycule then my favourite Pike ships in this fandom are probably Joseph and Una, though I don't really want them as a focus. I like alllll the platonic relationships between the main cast, and I think Chris in particular lends himself to ambiguous relationships because his love and care and affection for everyone is so palpable that he rides that edge of looking like it could be romantic or sexual even though it's not really intended that way.
specific related DNW: Pike/Batel as anything more than friends, any particular focus on her
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SFA
I did most of my watching after the deadline for the tag set or I might have done some nominating, rip! Lowkey bummed but it wasn't to be,
The obvious thing: I adored Tilly's cameo in E8 and if you wanna bounce off that, I'm so painfully here for it.
Absolutely adore Nahla Ake, and think she should have all of the partners she wants. Kind of suspect she generates her own specific gravity and most everyone she spends any significant time with ends up at least a little bit in love with her.
I'm particularly fond of her dynamic with Vance, not necessarily in a traditionally shippy way (though I can also see that) but v much in a "I could sit and watch them talk for three hours" and in a "I am a sucker for a man who looks at a woman as if she's actually magic" way. (The piggies scene! The fact she calls him Charlie! I just can't!) Basically me and Vance both look at Nahla the same way idk what to tell you!
I'm also slowly warming to Kalrec. Here for poly background ships! I'm just saying!
If you wanted to bring pretty much any of the kids or staff into a Ptilly fic that brought Chris or the OT4 (or hell, JC!) to their timeframe or... idk some other reason you thought of to incorporate them into an otherwise not-SFA era pairing or request, there's really no one I dislike.
I'm vaguely eh about Caleb/Tarima but don't hate it. Probably my favourite students are Jay-Den and Sam, but they all have their moments. I have an inexplicable-to-me soft spot for Genesis and absolutely adore her friendship with Sam. Not into teacher/student ships, but besides that I struggle to imagine combos that I'd hate as background ships and I enjoy all the friendships 🤷🏻
Lura/Reno I shipped from E2 and was so delighted when I realised it was intentional.
I've only seen up to E8 and am unlikely to get to watch beyond that for some months, so bear that in mind.
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BtVS
I am an incorrigible and unrepentant Buffy and Spike shipper, and Spike is canonically obsessed with her hair!
As with Yenskier, I'm here for more or less any iteration of this relationship from "enemy who I'm weirdly in tune with and can't seem to make myself kill even when I have a perfect opportunity" to HEA, I just really enjoy their vibes through that whole spectrum.
DNW: Briley or Bangel on screen, or really any of her other partners, focus on Seeing Red
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Other Star Trek Franchise Crossovers
I don't really have any major hates from elsewhere in the franchise, so if you just absolutely have to steal someone from TOS/TNG/ENT/AOS or wherever, then please do so. Unless otherwise mentioned, you can assume I do not actively hate anyone in DSC/SNW/VOY/DS9 except for the villains who are written to be hated, and even then I often love to hate them.
Characters:
Faves outside my main Trek fandoms include Riker, Troi (junior and senior), Trip, Malcolm, Hoshi, Porthos, Spot (honestly any dog or cat characters), any version of Uhura, Bones, Bev, Picard, Q off the top of my head. This is by no means exhaustive, there are very few characters I dislike and not that many I don't at least somewhat enjoy. If you have a desperate need to use someone I haven't mentioned, you can double check, but there's a good 95% chance I'll be fine with whoever it is.
I haven't yet seen Picard, Sektion 31, most of Lower Decks, and any of Prodigy, so I only know the characters in those that are familiar from elsewhere. (I do already have a soft spot for Mariner.)
Ships:
Besides the obvious big crossover ship, I also have a soft spot for Julian Bashir/Chakotay and Julian Bashir/Pike, and also for mushing Garashir and CJ into an übership, idk how that would work with my requests but if it floats your boat, I'm here for it. Qcard is a huge yes, and Lwuxana/Odo's weird and adorable QPR is a fave.
I'm lowkey convinced most of Starfleet is just one sprawling polycule of quasi familial relationships, QPRs, FWB & romance, so. Yeah. Do with that what you will!
As long as you've included at least one of my specified ships in some kind of relationship (romance preferred but absent not required), and haven't endgamed something in a way that conflicts with that ship (bear in mind I am here for all kinds of poly), then beyond that there's a lot of wiggle room as far as I'm concerned. Besides listed nOTPs, I'm pretty flexible.
Spoilers:
Trek and movies I have seen in their entirety and therefore won't be spoiled by you using them:
TOS
TAS
TNG
DS9
VOY
ENT
DSC (S2 well)
SNW
Movies
I-III
IV
First Contact
Insurrection
AOS Star Trek
I am working on filling in gaps and will keep this updated as and when. I can't guarantee that I know all of these shows and movies well, but you will at least definitely not be ruining anything for me by using them.
i know this isn't a specifically Trek event but since I already had this written out...
(The ones in bold are the ones that I actually know well and therefore if you wanna go deep on some shit and want to know it'll be appreciated, you're golden.)
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Actual Crossover Fandom (besides Buffy and TWN):
This is not a request because it isn't what I'd want the main thrust of the fic to be, but if you want to include characters, settings, scenarios etc from beloved fandoms (see: my AO3, I'm flootzavut everywhere) for your concept, I'm here for it. Crossovers between requested fandoms especially very welcome, I love seeing the creativity of people smashing fandoms together with reckless abandon. (If you wanted to crossover some of the fandoms I've actually nominated? Please absolutely go for it! Would love to see that.)
Doctor Who & related fandom characters especially welcome (favourites include Ten, Donna, Jack Harkness, the TARDIS) since they're very fun to put into this 'verse, but don't feel constrained to that. If you can make it work for your story, be my guest!
Crossover ships, not as a main focus but as a thing that happened or as a thing that leads to the main ship are also good with me. Jack Harkness/anyone is pretty much always credible, for example; I have written Jack/several people from various fandoms, most relevantly Jack/Julian Bashir but it was about Garashir; also fully headcanon he's been friend (and often lover) to Dax in several hosts.
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Prompts/tropes/AUs:
First kiss, first time, strangers to friends to lovers, cute AUs, meet cute, fake dating, fake relationships, fake married, accidentally married. I'm also up for doing tropes that don't fit naturally into a milieu and figuring out how to do it anyway.
I love all the classic silly fanfic tropes, so if you want to do a fake married coffee shop only one bed meet cute pet sitting fic set on Enterprise somehow? Be my absolute guest 🤣 I prefer the softer side of tropes for this kind of thing, but if you can take any trope and make it funny/soft then you're probably fine.
Canon, divergent, AUs, pre or post canon, different first meetings etc all welcome
mundane AUs or conversely magical AUs be my guest
angst with a happy ending
animals, pets
Other characters outside the main ship as family is welcome as a background to any fic or a major point if it serves the story
I'm a sucker for romance at any rating but I love a good friendship or found family fic. Also QPRs, polycules, friends with benefits as long as they're both/all into it, etc.
If you want specific prompts: I would struggle to imagine anything you could come up with based on the flufftober prompt lists that I wouldn't be delighted by!
This year there is a main list and two supplementary ones, and all of them would work for me.
https://www.tumblr.com/flufftober/787862511671214080/hello-and-welcome-to-our-fifth-annual
I have also looked at previous lists and basically, if it's a prompt that flufftober would post, you're gonna make me happy!
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Kinks/sex:
I love me some smut, I like everyone to have a great time, characters capable of multiple orgasms to come a lot, people to give enthusiastic head (especially to people with vaginas). I'm also here for queer identities, trans headcanons (there is a sad dearth of trans!Pike fic for starters), body positivity, generally everyone having a good old time.
That said, if you don't do smut then I fucking love a good kiss being the endgame of the fic, and I'm fine with fade to black, too. A really good kiss is always better than lacklustre smut or smut you didn't enjoy writing.
I am a soft creature and as such I prefer my kink loving and clearly mutually enjoyable, if you choose to go there (it's fine either way for me).
Love me an M or E fic, bonus points for generous partners who provide many orgasms. All the usual suspects, shout out to cunnilingus my beloved 🤣 also LAUGHTER I fucking adore when couples are having fun in the bedroom.
Kinks & related stuff I like, though nothing here is required: hands, uniforms, impact play, teasing, orgasm delay, overstimulation, nipple play, fisting but like in the most romantic way (I like it as a demonstration of utter surrender & mutual trust, not a dominance thing), sex gone beautifully wrong/especially if something disastrous happening leads to greater intimacy and closeness and possibly laughing their butts off, face riding/sitting, the gentler side of bondage, inappropriate use of the captain's chair or other official furniture
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DNWs:
DNW: permanent character death, hurt no comfort, tragic endings, dark fic, hopeless fic, miserable endings; it can be angsty, you can make me sad, I just don't want to end the fic going well that was depressing.
DNW: kiboshing my stated OTPs; they don't have to end up together, it's fine to have a different focus ship (as long as it's some variation on one I've requested), or a fic that isn't shippy (I absolutely adore a good friendship fic!), just don't shit on my OTPs to make it work.
If you hate, dislike, or just can't write them as a sexual or romantic pairing, that's absolutely fine, don't write them that way, but don't make a big deal of it. I'm good with them being friends, you just don't need to be going AND THAT'S ALL THEY WILL EVER BE in my face. Thanks!
OTPs to absolutely avoid doing this to, please.
Trek: Garak/Bashir, Janeway/Chakotay, Pike/Tilly
BtVS: Spike/Buffy
Witcher: Yen/Jaskier, Radovid/Jaskier
DNW: shaming of pubic or armpit hair, fully shaved genitals; I'm a big fan of bush but mostly just keep it bush positive please
DNW: bigotry of any kind except in the smallest amounts and being called the fuck out, if it is an essential part of the story, please keep it as minimal as possible, and I'd rather just not.
DNW: unrequested kinks: any kinks I haven't listed as likes please just avoid unless you find something I have written as a thing I love that I just clearly forgot; if in any doubt, don't. I have listed some of my least favourites as DNWs, but I'm also very aware that I'm not particularly educated in this area, and I see people DNW-ing kinks that wouldn't even occur to me. So please treat that as an opt in only situation, ask me via mods if you're not sure, and if still in doubt, simply don't go there, thank you.
DNW: underage sex, noncon/CNC, hardcore D/s/S&M, water sports or scat, incest, daddy/mommy kink, alpha/beta/omega dynamics, any kind of regression, ageplay, or associated paraphernalia
DNW: bodily fluids in sex besides come
DNW: eye, hand or finger trauma/torture.
DNW: babies, kidfic, pregnancy, abortions, adoption, fostering, just not into it and wouldn't want it in a gift; the only exceptions are canonical minors like Jake Sisko or Naomi Wildman, and even then would much rather that if they're playing a significant role, they're at least old enough to hold a conversation.
DNW: CSA unless it's canonical, and even then would rather not or that it's as minimally referred to as possible
DNW: generally any dark element (murder, rape, etc) that hasn't been specifically requested, or violence beyond what is normal in canon (and with regards to The Witcher, honestly you can tone it down massively from canon and I will be grateful).
DNW: excessively penis centric/PIV centric smut; nothing against penises or PIV (or vagina equivalent) sex, but hate when it's rushed into/treated as the pinnacle/what every sexual encounter is aiming at/the thing that makes it sex; also dislike fics which ignore how vaginas work, no entering in one mighty thrust and her immediately coming her brains out, please; treat vaginas with the respect they deserve, basically 🤣
DNW: Seven/Chakotay, Julian/Ezri, Chris/Marie as significant ships in the fic, Garak/Ziyal I'm fine with just her crushing on him, but not with it being a reciprocated or consummated ship. Past Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Riley that's basically canon is fine, don't want to see either on screen.
DNW: Pike pursing Tilly without regard to her being an Ensign in his command; depending on circumstances it can work that they have a relationship despite that, but if he just goes "eh idc" then it breaks his character for me.
DNW: Tilly being called Sylvia except in official contexts or as a joke, too much Neelix screentime.
DNW: anything created or edited by AI.
DNW: 2nd person POV; 1st person POV unless it's epistolary; no reader or y/n fic.
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