gala_apples

Hi! Thanks for writing for me for holly_poly! My Things I Like lists tend to be pretty long but I hope they're not obnoxiously so. Rifle through and pluck out the bits that sound interesting :)

Note: still editing for 2022

In general:
I'd rather have an in character conversation/world build than an unoffensive conversation/world build. This probably goes mostly for It, but I mean it for any of the fandoms. Misogyny, racism, homophobia- if the characters would face it, write it. Feel free to age up canonically minor characters as necessary. Three of my five fandoms this year include drug use, and the others could easily incorporate it. Having done a bunch of things in my late teens, and living in a country with legal weed, I have a huge squick for drug inaccuracies. Erowid.org is a great resource with trip reports and instructions if you need it.

I’m down with any rating, but if you do aim for a higher rating, I quite like nearly any kink. Some of my favourites are makeshift bondage (like ties or clothes pushed half off to restrict movement) public teasing into being turned on, making people blush, dirty talk, marks of ownership (not necessarily hardcore like collaring, though that's great, having a bracelet to wear or a string of hickies or clothes sharing works too) drunk/high sex, BDSM, and overstimulation. But really, if you wanted to go for any kink I'd be happy. My only limit is no guro/vore.

Note: massages are a trigger of mine. It's really upsetting to read them. I'm okay with dub-con (whether due to manipulation or intoxication), but straight up non-con is not enjoyable. I also have phobias of fire/burning alive, stuff happening to eyeballs or teeth, and condiments.

More specifically:


It: I love a good Bev doesn’t move away teenage Losers fic. Post Chapter 2 nearly canon but Stan and Eddie don’t die fic is great too. I head canon OCD Stan, and PTSD everyone.
-Bill/Ben/Bev- I’ve just never understood why love triangles have to end in one or another. Bev can love both! Maybe Ben’s not totally crushed on the staircase about Bev hazily thinking she loved Bill! Or maybe if everyone at Derry high’s gonna call her a slut anyway, she might as well date both of them.
-Ben/Bev/Richie- while I mostly subscribe to gay!Richie, there’s just a queerplatonic love and similarity with Richie and Bev that makes me think they’d occasionally make out as friends. I can very easily see Ben/Bev consoling Richie if Eddie lived but remained straight post It 2, or in their teen years post It 1.
-Ben/Bev/Eddie/Richie- again, it hinges on how close I imagine Bev and Richie to be. I see this starting as two couples getting drunk and too snuggly, and then they don’t want to do it just once.
-Eddie/Richie/Stan- when I’m not imagining Bev as Richie’s best friend, I’m imagining Stan. Canon tells us about Richie’s crush on Eddie, but you can pry his crush on Stan out of my cold dead hands.
-Bill/Richie/Stan- Bill and Stan are definitely the two Richie came out to first. They’re the depression trio, all bleak black humor and horror movies and stories.
-Bill/Ben/Bev/Richie/Stan/Mike/Eddie- of course I ship Ot7, they’re the Losers Club, able to fight an interdimensional eldritch clown demon with the power of friendship. I’d love teenage them realising all they want is each other. Alternatively, adult them getting their memories back and realising all they’ve been missing, why everyone’s seemed so unfulfilling the last twenty something years. 100 percent here for codependency, and them all moving to live close to each other.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
-Todd/Farrah/Dirk- I love Todd in season two, so invested in finding Dirk, and the flow of the universe. Farah’s so practical, and has internalized that the rules of society don’t have to apply to her, I can see her bringing up a triad as the best course of action. On the other hand, I also headcanon that they fucked during the afterparty after the concert.
Amanda/The Rowdy 3- The sense of freedom Amanda gains when she’s with the Rowdy 3 is fantastic, I love every moment they’re together on screen. Martin and Cross and Gripps and Vogel already being a quad, and Amanda fitting herself into that. Casual vansex between a few of them while a few others do other shit. Sharing leather jackets, and crowbars.

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-lWolfgang/Rajan/Kala- I love their dynamic together, so fucking much. Wolfgang is such a loner type, that when he tells Rajan other people wouldn't have done for him what he did and they're FRIENDS now, ugh. Even if you don't triangle ship them, only v-poly, they dance together at the wedding and I completely headcanon that Felix and Wolfgang and Rajan all hang out. And the way Rajan just wants to be a good husband, and genuinely means that in a 'what supports Kala' way, not in any traditional sense, fucking bless his soul. And Kala, struggling with it and the concept of secretly being "bad", and maybe that's okay... Basically, I just want them to hang out and date and fuck. If you only subscribe to v-poly that's fine, but the final orgy scene had Wolfgang and Rajan kissing AND I DIED, so if you want to write triangle poly that's lovely too. (also, mild headcanon of felix/wolfgang having on and off extremely casual bro-sex. so if Rajan wants to have an OMG KINDA GAY revelation I'd understand it more than Wolfgang one? But you write what makes you happy) Also, I love the background ot8. If you felt like writing a snippet of a orgy within Rajan/Kala/Wolfgang that’d be rad as hell.

Stranger Things:
-Steve/Jonathan/Nancy- all four seasons have a very different vibe, but I love s1 Steve buying Jonathan the camera and all three sort of seducing each other, s2 breaking up/infidelity/needing more angstfic, s3 Robin’s enlightened Steve, Jonathan doesn’t move away and s4 Nancy’s renewed interest in Steve fic. These three are my traumatised babies who can’t let go of each other despite it maybe being healthier to.
-El/Will/Mike- I love how much of a caretaker Mike always is, when he’s at his best. Taking care of people who need him is such a crucial component of his psyche, I could see it taking a dom/sub tilt when they got older and sexualised. I’d love any kind of dealing with your sexuality, figuring out who you are, coming out kind of thing (including Will thinking he’s gay and then slowly realising he likes El). Alternatively, an established pairing fic where there’s some kind of hurt/comfort, and domesticity is also lovely.
-Dustin/Lucas/Max- I can see Lucas and Max going through high school and college being constantly on again and off again. Always drawing back to each other, but needing other things. At some point he realises he’s bi, and Max is the kind of semi-girlfriend to encourage exploration. He naturally gravitates towards Dustin. Except Dustin isn’t the kind of guy to give relationship ultimatums, hasn’t been since the s1 convo with Mike about who’s best friends with whom. Dustin’s fine with Lucas having them both at the same time.
-El/Mike/Max- I love the devotion to El they both have. In a world where Joyce doesn’t force them to move, I can see the three bonding over their post s3 losses. An s4 AU where Max goes to Lenora and kicks the shit out of Angela at the roller rink. I also love how snarky Max is. El might get a softer Max, but Max would be brutal against Mike.
-El/Max/Lucas- El and Lucas never leaving Max’s bedside, until she recovers. (fine with chronic pain and permanent injury, but please no blindness). Bonding over wanting Max to get better. Helping her through rehab, and with a still alcoholic Ms Mayfeild.
-El/Max/Lucas/Mike- El not being properly socialized and not knowing it’s ‘weird’ to comment about how cute her female best friend is. Mike being scared for her, knowing what society would say, knowing what people like his dad would say. He knows how dangerous it is, he likes Lucas and can’t do anything about it. But El and Max and Lucas have all already learned lessons about not needing what society expects of them and they coax Mike through it. initially platonic sleeping in the same bed after a nightmare turning into desire.
-Will/Mike/El/Max/Lucas/Dustin- what can I say, I’ve always shipped core group fic in any fandom I’ve been in. I find all of their individual pairing dynamics so interesting, all wrapped up together is off the charts. They’d literally die for each other, something about that just warms my heart. As per Holly Poly rules, here I can also toss in, I’d also be fine with Steve being added in. Maybe not with all of them equally, but I do ship the rare ship of Dustin/Steve, and can see arguments being made for others in the party.
-Argyle/Jonathan/Nancy- just as Murray’s too honest talk was a catalyst for their relationship, so are Argyle’s stoned comments. They still love each other, and worrying about what could happen in the future while they’re mid-apocalypse seems kind of stupid. Jonathan never thought Nancy and Argyle would get along, but Nancy likes Argyle’s bluntness. She can see why Jonathan and Argyle are basically soulmates.
-Robin/Steve/Nancy- I respect lesbian Robin, and so does Steve. It’s v-poly, both of them loving Nancy. But Robin and Steve are queerplatonic soulmates, and they absolutely buy a house together and live in each other’s laps. They provide affection for each other when Nancy is busy or not in the mood. Shared trauma relationship, with getting strangled in Creel house, and thinking they’d won only for Vecna to escape.
-Steve/Robin/Vickie- Robin and vickie make great girlfriends, make each other feel brave enough to be out. Steve hangs out with them nearly 24/7, deeply codependent with Robin and vice versa, and the more Vickie gets to know him the more she loves him. Robin understanding Vickie’s confession, because who wouldn’t love Steve?
-Steve/Eddie/Nancy- the ultimate dom/dom/sub relationship, Eddie showing Nancy the ropes in BDSM technique while Nancy knows things about Steve Eddie doesn’t yet.
-Jonathan/Nancy/Steve/Eddie- the two couples (Robin and current GF also present but not in the ship) having dinner parties and attending concerts and art events, ending each event telling their partner how attractive they find they other couple. One of them breaking the barrier and bringing it up to the group. Could be partner swap, or a full foursome.

Gossip Girl 2021: I love everything about Aki/Audrey/Max. I weirdly relate to Audrey, the financial ruin thing (though mine went from middle class to poverty line, not super rich to rich), and the clinically depressed emotionally abusive mom. I grew up loving Brian Kinney from Queer As Folk, and Max is like his child; proudly sexual and hedonistic, drugs and sex and luxury goods a veneer over the inner pain, not that many care to look deeper. And then Aki, so gen and chill except for all the times his life is falling apart. His dad outing him (and mislabelling him too!) is brutal. I usually hate cheating storylines, the amount of times I’ve bitched ‘don’t cheat just be poly’ at a screen is staggering. And Gossip Girl is a show that actually goes there. They both go from ashamed of their cheating and Max being used, to finding comfort in each other. I was fucking over the moon that it ended happily. I’d love literally any relationship fic. Directly post canon fic, future adult them fic, anything that happens in the high moments of the episodes.