[dear creator] pining exchange ▵ dear author

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this post is currently under construction! 

i have a detailed likes&dislikes post here if you wanna give that a look but in general i like: seemingly unrequited love/pining, pretend relationship, friends with benefits, angst with a happy ending, and banter.

kink/sex wise i enjoy: biting/hickeys, blowjobs, coming on face/lips/stomach/etc., cunnilingus, frottage, mutual masturbation, partially clothed sex, phone sex, praise kink, semi-public sex, up against a wall sex, and i have a bit of jealousy/possessive kink (but not to a point where it's unhealthy).

 

i've also asked for some of these pairings in past letters, you can take a look at those here, if you'd like. 

 

my do not wants are: infidelity, non-con/dub-con, bdsm, daddy kink, non-sexual bodily fluids, the word pussy. (i know that last one is really nit-picky but there's something about the word that makes me cringe.

 

criminal minds.
alvez/garcia. (alvez pining).
i love these two and how alvez is totally head over heels for garcia. i’d love for something where alvez keeps doing little things to show garcia he’s interested in her and garcia just <i>not getting</i>, perhaps purposely. i’m okay with either a lighter tone or a darker tone that touches on some of the themes of the show and how it might affect the two of them and their relationship.  

morgan/reid. (both pining).
my headcanons are that reid is totally in love with morgan and thinks that morgan would never be into him/sees him as more of younger brother and that morgan has feelings for reid but doesn’t realize it. one idea i like for these two is morgan losing his shit when he finds out reid has been arrested/framed and working to do everything he can to clear reid’s name and realizing the reason he cares so much is because he has more than platonic feelings for reid.

harry potter.
harry/draco. (draco pining). 

i have a soft spot for draco pining for harry. there’s all sorts of paths you could take! maybe he’s had feelings for harry since school but knew he could never act on it because he knew lucuius/wizarding society would be unaccepting (of a m/m relationship and/or a pureblood/halfblood relationship). maybe he and harry have started working together and once he starts getting to know the real harry, he starts falling for him. 

 

if you want to write something that follows canon, that’s totally fine! i’m fine with their canon marriages existing, and astoria’s canon death. divorces between draco/astoria and harry/ginny are fine though i would prefer they be amicable. 

 

fleur/viktor. (viktor pining).
i love the idea of these two so. much.

 

my headcanon is that they kept in touch through letters after the tournament (he was at her wedding! it’s possible!) and he kind of becomes her main source of support after bill dies. and then, because grief does funny things to a person, they strike up a friends with benefits type relationship, but viktor develops feelings he doesn’t think are requited because fleur still clearly loves bill so much. i’m also okay with something where bill/fleur never happened!

harry/ron/hermione. (harry pining).
i love these three and their relationship. they’ve been through so much together that i think it’s entirely possible that a relationship that doesn’t involve the three of them doesn’t work since they’re the only ones who can really understand what all they’ve been through. i have different ideas of how i think they might get together. one way is where ron and hermione, after being together, break up and harry/ron get together but it’s still not quite right, and then they try harry/hermione out but it doesn’t work either and they figure out it doesn’t work without the three of them. i’m also totally cool with something where ron/hermione don’t break up and harry ends up becoming a part of their relationship, after pining from afar, of course. 

harry/ron. (ron pining).

i love the relationship between these two so much. ron was the thing harry would miss the most! i love the idea of ron pining for harry but thinking that even despite the fact that he’s proved himself more than worthy, he isn’t good enough to be with harry, that harry would never be with him. and then harry convincing him that ron is the best person he’s ever known and of course he loves him, how could ron ever think he wouldn’t, etc.

 

if you want to include their canonical marriages to ginny and hermione and have them have amicable divorces that’s totally fine, but it’s also cool if you want to write something where harry/ginny and ron/hermione never got married! 

 

james/sirius. (sirius pining).
james/sirius is my favorite, and really only, sirius ship as i firmly believe sirius was head over heels in love with james and everything he did was an attempt to win james’ attention and approval. i like the idea of sirius pining after James, knowing james will never love him in the way he wants because james only has eyes for lily. i love the idea of james/lily having an open relationship of sorts where lily knows that james/sirius are a thing and supports it but i’m also fine with james/lily never being a couple. 

ron/pansy. (pansy pining).
my favorite trope for these two is one where they meet up (behind disguises at a ministry function, drunkenly at a club, etc.) and sleep together, have some of the best sex they’ve ever had, and then strike up an enemies with benefits arrangement. only the more they escapades they have, the more pansy starts to develop feelings and the more she knows ron will never return those feelings, not after everything that happened during the school, the war, etc.

luna/ginny. (ginny pining).
my headcanon for ginny is that she doesn’t realizes she likes both boys <i>and</i> girls until after school. i love the friends to lovers trope with these two. reasons ginny could be pining: she doesn’t think luna likes girls, luna’s in a relationship with rolf or an omc/omf, whatever you prefer to write! 

harry/charlie. (harry pining).
i have two favorite ideas for these two. the first is that harry leaves after the war, to just get away from it all, and ups in romania with charlie, doing things with dragons (rehabilitating hurt ones, helping create a dragon assisted therapy program, whatever you like). as he gets to know charlie as more than just ron’s attractive older brother, harry starts falling for him but thinks charlie only sees him as a younger brother. whether or not charlie is asexual is totally up to you! i’m fine either way! 

haven.
duke/audrey/nathan. (duke pining).
with these three, i think duke is the only one who actually realizes what’s going on between the three of them beneath the surface, but thinks it’ll never happen because he thinks nathan truly hates him and audrey won’t want to be with him if nathan isn’t part of the picture too. i love the idea of them turning into friends with benefits and duke pining, thinking that while audrey probably isn’t using him just for sex, nathan is and doesn’t and will never truly care about him, not the way he cares about audrey.

duke/audrey/nathan. (nathan pining).

i think nathan is the one who is in deep denial about the three of them and refuses to accept it, partially because he thinks duke and audrey will decide they’re better off without him and drop him. 

 

i’m also here for duke/audrey getting together and nathan desperately wanting to be a part of it, and the same situation goes for nathan/audrey and duke. 

 

leverage.
sophie/eliot. (sophie pining). sophie/eliot. (eliot pining). sophie/eliot. (both pining). 

sophie/eliot is the ship i ask for in every exchange (we all have one), i love them so much. they have so much chemistry and so much potential! possible prompts: canon divergence where they sleep together in the rashomon job and then wonder about each other occasionally over the years, or maybe they run into each other all over the world and sleep together and always wonder what a real relationship would be like. maybe a friends with benefits au where they both have feelings but just ignore them and fuck more and more. or undercover as a couple/pretend relationship. or eliot's a hitman and sophie is his latest target (who is actually an assassin) but she seduces him in an attempt to stop him from killing her. a pygmalion/my fair lady au with sophie training eliot to be one of the 1% because ~reasons and sophie realizing she likes eliot the way he is but this is what she does. angst! feelings! more angst! or eliot is a boxer and sophie is his publicist who works closely with eliot and forces him to do things he doesn't want like talk shows and interviews and magazine spreads and things. and they spend so much time together and they fall for each other but can't be together because professionalism. i have some v inspiring gifs and screencaps for these in this post, btw.

marvel.
bruce/natasha. (natasha pining). 
i was always a fan of this ship in a "it's never gonna happen in canon and i don't really want it to" kind of way so i think it's needless to say my preference for anything with these two is pre-aou or entirely au. i just think they'd have a really interesting dynamic with how natasha, who isn't afraid of much, at least not outwardly, is visibly afraid of him, or at least the hulk and bruce is so careful not to be intimidating but natasha is afraid of him anyhow, that's got to effect them. i'd love to see an exploration of how these two would be able to get past some of their issues with each other, with themselves, and form a relationship. any au your mind cooks up would be great too!

i'd love to see natasha pining thinking bruce is too good of a person to love her and all the horrible things she's done. 

bruce/thor. (bruce pining).
i'd love to see something with bruce thinking he's not good enough for thor, a literal god, and thor being apalled and confused as to why bruce would think that since he's one of, if not the, best person thor knows. also here for au's like looks-like-a-dumb-jock-but-is-actually-really-intelligent-thor and why-is-he-interested-in-me-i-don't-understand bruce. 

carol/maria. (both pining).
i'd love to see something with these two pining after one another, either while they were in the air force, or after carol comes back to earth. i love the idea of carol living with maria and monica and feeling like she's monica's other mom and maria's wife but knowing she isn't and it killing her inside. 

clint/coulson. (both pining).
i love the idea that both of these two have had feelings for each other basically since a couple years after they first met but have been pining because of various reasons (age difference, interoffice romance not allowed, self-esteem issues, etc. totally here for au's too!

pepper/natasha. (both pining).
i love the idea of them pining after each other during iron man 2 and natasha knowing she can never have anything with pepper because she's been lying to her this whole time, or because she thinks pepper is in love with tony, or both, and pepper pining for natalie/natasha thinking she's in love with tony. i'm also here for something where natasha teaches pepper various ass kicking techniques or pepper teaches natasha non-physical ass kicking techniques or au's or anything. 

sam/bucky. (bucky pining).
i love the idea of bucky pining after sam because he thinks he's not good enough for sam because of all the thinks he did while he was the winter soldier. i'm also here for pretend relationship, friends with benefits, or complete au's. 

steve/tony. (both pining). steve/tony. (steve pining). steve/tony. (tony pining).
i kind of love the concept of steve being a friend of howard's who was kind of around when tony was growing up and tony having a crush on him that never really fades and tony and steve becoming close once tony's older and steve angsting because tony's younger and not to mention his friend's son and blah, blah, blah. or you could go the canon route with tony angsting over being older than steve, whichever is more your fancy. or an au! au's ar great. seriously, i love all of them, take your pick!

original work.

for these original work prompts, i’m essentially here for whatever inspires you! 

 

my infidelity dnw does not apply for queen trapped in unhappy marriage/her husband's mistress and i’m totally fine if you kill the husband off. you can even make the wife and/or mistress do the killing if you like! 

 

fantasy librarian/arrogant royal. (both pining).

female athlete/female cheerleader. (cheerleader pining).

foppish nobleman/scarred male ex-soldier he seduces because of a dare. (both pining).

foppish nobleman/scarred male ex-soldier he seduces because of a dare. (fop pining).

journeyman baseball player/his superstar teammate. (journeyman pining).

queen trapped in unhappy marriage/her husband's mistress. (queen pining).

rich male aristocrat/lower class husband forced into marrying him. (both pining).

sex shop owner/shy customer (both pining).

shy teenage boy/the most popular jock in school. (both pining).

victorian painter/victorian painter's model (both pining).

psych.
shawn/gus. (shawn pining).
my headcanon for these two is that shawn has been in love with gus for a very long time but has become an expert in covering the sincerity of his feelings up. he also thinks he knows for a fact that gus doesn’t love him back in the same way because if he did shawn would know. but gus has known shawn forever and knows how to hide his true feelings from shawn’s uber observant self. also here for shawn thinking that he’s not serious enough/good enough/enough in general for gus to love him back. 

juliet/lassiter. (juliet pining).
the way he looked at her in that outfit in the model ep. he knew her hair smelled like peaches. secret relationship, undercover as a couple, he's one of her instructors at the police academy, whatever floats your boat. i love the idea of iuliet’s feelings for lassiter sneaking up on her. and while she would never call it pining, she does sometimes get a bit wistful wondering what a relationship between them would be like. she’s especially curious about the sex. i like the idea of juliet thinking lassiter doesn’t return her feelings because he doesn’t seem to care about anything but work.

stranger things.
joyce/hopper. (joyce pining). joyce/hopper. (hopper pining). joyce/hopper (both pining).
i love the idea that hop was completely in love with joyce in high school but she hardly ever looked his way because they ran in different circles and/or she was too involved in her toxic relationship with lonnie. i love the idea that that pining basically started right back up again as soon as hopper moved back to hawkins and started being around joyce again. i'm also here for joyce pining for hop too, (maybe he was popular in high school and she wasn't? she always found herself wondering what it would be like to date him instead of lonnie though she knew he would never give her the time of day). 

teen wolf.
boyd/erica. (boyd pining). boyd/erica. (both pining).
i love the idea of either one of them thinking they aren't good enough for the other/the other is too good for them. i'm here for something pre-wolf bite or post-wolf bite or something totally au.

chris/lydia. (lydia pining).
i love the idea of lydia having this ridiculous crush she knows will never happen because she's too young for him, he's still in love with his dead wife, his daughter's best friend, take your pick of reasons. for some situational prompts: perhaps they're using each other to try and help themselves get through allison's? or maybe she comes to him for training in some area? weapons? wondering if he can help her with being a banshee because the argent family has been dealing with such creatures for centuries? maybe chris becomes a surrogate member of the pack and helps out when they need him (and maybe at one point he and lydia have to pretend to be together) or or or --- honestly, i'd adore absolutely anything. i'd also love for him to be angsting over having feelings for her because he thinks she's too young, and her trying to get him to see that she's an adult and is capable of making her own decisions. also here for au's!

derek/stiles. (derek pining). derek/stiles. (stiles pining). derek/stiles. (both pining).
some of my favorite tropes for these two are friends with benefits, with either one or both of them thinking they'll never want each other for anything other than their bodies. i also adore pretend relationship with these two! and i really love derek thinking he's not good enough for stiles, that he's not a good enough person, and stiles thinking that he's not attractive/normal/whatever enough for derek. also love pining because of age difference or because of boundaries (boss/employee, teacher's assistant/student, etc.)

derek/isaac. (derek pining).
for these two i love the idea of derek thinking he'll never be what isaac needs because he's too old, because he's not good enough, because he hurts everything he touches and isaac's been hurt enough, etc. so instead he just sits and pines. also here for au's!

melissa/sheriff. (sheriff pining).
i love the idea of the sheriff have been in love with melissa for years but choosing not to act on it and instead just pining away because he doesn't want to jeopardize their friendship or the close friendship between their sons. also here for au's!

that '70s show.
eric/jackie. (eric pining). eric/jackie. (jackie pining). eric/jackie. (both pining).
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i've always loved the idea of the two of them. especially since the episode where eric imagines her in the bikini. i'd love anything about the two of them becoming closer, either as friends or as something more. some ideas i'd like to see: the two of them fake dating (it could either end romantically or just be a gen story full of hijinks), especially since jackie is red's favorite and his reaction to finding out they're dating/not actually dating has so many possibilites. i also love the idea of them randomly bumping into each other again later in life and becoming much closer than they were before, either romantically or just as friends. 

 

i'm also totally here for complete au's. jackie is an intergalactic princess and eric is her longsuffering political advisor? amazing! jackie is a dallas cowboy cheerleader and eric is...i don't know anything about football and i only cheered for 2 years in elementary school, i don't know. something that would cause them to interact. anyway, just as awesome! roaring 20s au where jackie's a rich socialite and eric is an reporter who gets close to her to try and find out about her dad's crooked business dealings? fantastic! pretty much everything is fair game. i'd love to see some pining where eric pines over jackie, thinking she's too attractive/popular/rich/whatever for him and jackie secretly thinking eric would never like her because's she's too dumb/superficial/whatever for him.

 
of course, you can always just use the freeform tags on my sign-up as inspiration as well! 

as always, these are, of course, just suggestions/ideas and you should feel free to write whatever you like! i will love it no matter what. ♡