dear author or artist: dceu exchange

[aeon_entwined]

Thank you very much for deciding to wrangle a fanwork (fic, art, whichever you choose) for me! I've been a writer for years now and exchanging fics/art/etc for any reason on any scale has always been an encounter that holds a special place in my heart.

That said, I haven't really participated in a proper organized fandom exchange before (aside from one [1] Yuletide), so I'm still a bit uncertain as to how this particular thing goes.

My main online presence these days is Tumblr and/or Twitter, so feel free to browse those if you want to. Blog tags are self explanatory. I basically abandoned LJ/DW almost a decade years ago.

I was MCU-centric for quite a while (the urls should give you a bit a hint haha) upon delving into modern online fandom, but I fell off the bandwagon around 2015-ish. I still do love some characters but my heart belongs solely to DC these days. And I've loved my main DC guys and gals for far longer than just that (grew up watching the animated shows) as well, but the DCEU has been quite a ride since it kicked off.

I go back and forth between collecting deluges of comics/covers and going months without buying anything, which has a lot to do with my changing financial situations. However, I've been stable for a while now (working for one of the major studios in Hollywood) and I'm currently in the middle of another spree, mostly thanks to the release of Action Comics 1000 and several other milestone issues.

I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to fic and art. I guess I'd say anything pairing-oriented from Teen-rated and up on both ends is good by me! ♥


Pairings I've Requested

Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
Slade Wilson/Bruce Wayne
Jor-El/General Zod
Diana Prince/Lois Lane
Henry Cavill/Ben Affleck

(for simplicity's sake, my old-fashioned ass put each pair in the order of preferred top/preferred bottom, but that's not a hard rule, just a preference~)


General Likes/Kinks
world building
canon divergence
hurt/comfort
domestic snapshots
growing-old-together trope
adventurous sex (basically just check the #nsfw tag on my blog and you'll get an idea~)
mild bdsm (dom/sub elements, sensory deprivation, fisting, bondage, etc.)
body worship
oral fixation

General Dislikes/Hard Squicks
darkfic
kidfic
high school/college/coffee shop/hipster AUs
infidelity
abuse/excess violence
character death
rape/non-con
necrophilia


Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne

These two are my gold standard. My happy place. My bread and butter. If I had to pick ship content to get stuck on a deserted island with, I'd pick this one three times.

You can do literally anything with them and I'll love it. Beauty & the Beast fantasy AU with a monster-y Bat? Gorgeous. Bruce and Clark discover each other before the Black Zero disaster and there's actually identity!porn? Stellar. Bruce testing the limits of just how much sugar daddy-ing Clark will tolerate post-JL? Delightful. Clark's fully mature Kryptonian genetics revealing less human attributes under a yellow sun and Bruce is suitably fascinated/turned on by his properly alien boyfriend? Yes, please.

The world is your oyster, my friend. I love this old silver fox and his spunky young alien.


Slade Wilson/Bruce Wayne

This one might sound a bit...odd. Especially since there's very little comic history to back it up. But just stick with me for a minute.

DCEU!Bruce has been doing the Batman gig for decades now. By that same card, Slade's been doing his Deathstroke gig for a similar amount of time (though I headcanon him to be older than Bruce in the DCEU). It's kind of like the former-villain-eventually-segues-into-weird-uncle trope, only Slade is definitely still his anti-hero self with his ethically questionable morals and penchant for murdering (bad) people for money. Maybe Bruce lures Slade over to "his side" as he's in the process of putting the League together. Maybe he convinces Slade that there's a threat bigger than any of them headed for earth and they could put the past to bed if they pool their resources to help humanity instead of Slade helping himself. (Slade = Bruce's dirty little secret? Only Bruce is the biggest bottom around and there's nothing very little about Slade /rimshot)

They're old, they're snarky, their wordly philosophies are dichotomous to each other. They might be a little in love after all these years? Who knows. They know. I especially love imagining it as having a heavy flavor of "nobody gets to fuck with/kill the Bat but me" on Slade's side. Also, who wouldn't say no to watching those two silver foxes getting it on?


Jor-El/General Zod

Haha. My favorite old (dead) gay aliens.

There was so much potential! The genetically predispositioned military leader struggling to save his species (and going about it all wrong) while the scion of the Science Guild attempts to do the same. If they'd just combined their efforts, they might've won together.

I'd love a canon-based AU here. Maybe pre-movie, maybe an AU of the movie itself where Jor and Dru survived (Dru-Zod is the general's given name, but if you're writing for this one, you knew that already~). I'd just love to see the upright military-bred soldier slowly learning that there is more to life than giving and taking orders thanks to his heretic of a scientist friend/boyfriend. Maybe he ends up paired with Jor via the High Council's orders instead of Jor being paired with Lara? And is suitably pissed about it since what the hell is he supposed to do with this soft scientist who's never even seen a pulse rifle, let alone handled one. (If you get bonus hints of Lara/Faora in there in the background (art or fic-wise) somehow, I'll probably flip.)


Diana Prince/Lois Lane

This ship hit me out of the blue at the tail end of BvS when Diana shared that heartbreakingly empathetic look with Lois as Lo ran to Clark's body.

I mean, Diana/Steve is pretty endgame but Steve's a little dead. I feel like not only would Diana reach out to Lois over the shared connection of losing someone that close to your heart, but she'd also use it like a lifeline to start gradually coming back out into the view of the world instead of hiding away.

So both Lois and Diana would view each other as a way back to the light and to life, rather than being pulled down into the darkness after suffering the losses they did. (Hugs and spooning work delightfully if we're talking art! Or a few steps beyond spooning~)


Henry Cavill/Ben Affleck

I definitely enjoy RPF. Especially when the individuals in question have been as generously loud as these fellows were during the BvS and JL press tours. Constant quips about how many times they had sex or what having sex did for their on-screen relationship, constantly praising each other for their looks or physique (or both), the blatant admission that Ben thought Henry looked like a porn star when he showed up for JL reshoots....it just never ends! Go wild. One of them inviting the other back to his trailer/hotel room, a cast party gets a little hotter and heavier than anticipated, anything and everything is fair game (mostly as the BvS-to-JL timeline was operating when Ben & Jen had [unofficially] separated and Henry was unattached).


And that, as we say in this town, is a wrap! Thank you so much again for picking my pairing/prompt and I can't wait to see the finished product, be it fic or art or something else altogether! ♥