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This means now is MADNESS TIME! Under the cut are all prompts sorted by requester's AO3 name. Pick one or more, write a story of any length, post to the collection. For a reminder about how to post please see this post.



For allofmyheart

General likes and dislikes: I'm not particularly into AUs, although you can try selling one to me if you like! I like stuff which explores how the characters feel about canon stuff that's going on. Maybe missing scenes or scenes pre-canon. Or post, if the characters are not dead by then ;) I like happy fluff, angsty misery, unresolved sexual tension, and porn without plot. I probably prefer canon couplings, or at least believable other ones. I'm not particularly keen on slash, although again, you can try selling it to me. I don't enjoy violence or bondage.

- Love's Labours Lost. One of my favourite plays and often overlooked. Anything, really. I saw David Tennant as Berowne, if you want to play with that. He was ace.


- Romeo and Juliet. Something exploring Mercutio would be great. He's funny, he's sexy, he's got a danger about him, he might be gay. He's by far the best character in the play.


- The Tempest. Again, anything, really. The Globe production with Roger Allam is the only one I've seen.


- A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oberon/Titania. They're a very grown-up, sexy couple - equally attracted and exasperated by one another.


- Macbeth. Something about Macbeth/Lady M, or maybe about the magical elements.


For days_of_storm

General likes and dislikes: things that are good: AUs are okay, as long as they are appropriate to the characters' estimated ages, character death okay, angst okay, fluff very welcome, complications are what makes the world go round, hurt/comfort (more than) okay, explicit sex okay (we are talking about Shakespeare after all), codpiece jokes welcome

not good: non-con, rape etc, mutilation, self-harm

- The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Characters: Valentine/Proteus, Julia/Silvia, Valentine/Proteus/Silvia/Julia (any of the other characters can, of course, feature, in addition of ocs)


- A Midsummer Night's Dream. Characters: Demetrius/Lysander, Helena/Hermia, Lysander/Demetrius/Hermia/Helena (any of the other characters can, of course, feature, in addition of ocs)


- Romeo and Juliet. Characters: Romeo/Mercutio (any of the other characters can, of course, feature, in addition of ocs)


- Twelfth Night. Characters: Antonio/Sebastian


For dazebras

General likes and dislikes: DO NOT WANTS: AU, bestiality (any form), body image issues focusing on weight, child death, divorce, extreme BDSM (ask at tumblr for clarification), incest (in any form), infidelity, non-canonical character death, non-con/rape, permanent injury, pregnancy (in any form), scat play, somnophilia, suicide, watersports, wound fucking.
NOTES: Will accept any rating. While I do enjoy porn, it is not necessary if it makes the writer uncomfortable. I have my tumblr (dazebras) anon on, if the writer has any questions.

- Twelfth Night - Olivia/Viola, f/f, canon setting. Identity porn a plus!


- Hamlet - Hamlet/Horatio, m/m, canon setting. Something non-angsty. Fun at Wittenburg?


- Hamlet - Horatio murdered Ophelia, canon setting.


- As You Like It - Trans!Rosalind/Ganymede / gay!Orlando, m/m, canon setting.

For Heliopause

General likes and dislikes: I do like joyful stories - eucatastrophe. But not fluff - I like stories that recognise complexity and don't deny darkness, if it's there (and there's plenty in Shakespeare, even in the Comedies). I'm not wanting explicit, or non-con or hardcore kink, please.

- Hamlet: This play is such a dark whirlpool of deceptions and pretence - nothing's certain, nobody can be trusted. For instance, the Ghost - Hamlet chooses to "call [it] Hamlet, King, father" - but is it? If it's not Hamlet's father's ghost, then what is it, and why is it present in Elsinore? Or again - Hamlet tells Horatio a convenient tale about a pirate ship. Does Horatio believe it? If he doubts Hamlet, what then - does it change their relationship? If Hamlet is lying, what really happened? Or Gertrude - the sole witness to Ophelia's death - but did it really happen the way she said?


- Twelfth Night: Malvolio, and others as you choose. "I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!" How does this play out? Does he get his revenge (how?), or is reconciliation possible? Maybe he can reconcile with some but not others?


- Midsummer Night's Dream: you can't go wrong with this one! There's so much to play with - the politics (including sexual politics and colonial politics), and the devastating tangle of relationship complexities everywhere, and especially all the magic. It's hard to pick specifics here - go wild!


- The Tempest: Sycorax and Caliban and Ariel, especially Sycorax. Tell me anything to fill in her story - Who she was, what exile meant to her and how she raised her child. (How did they communicate? since Prospero is given credit for teaching Caliban to speak - and to curse.) How they lived on the island. How Ariel came to be her servant, and why that servant was imprisoned in the split pine. How and why she died. Up to you - just whatever expands on her story.

For Lexigent

General likes and dislikes: I'm easy, though quite vanilla. Would prefer no explicit sex but I am big on romance, angst, friendship, tension (that gets resolved). I'm also a big fan of character studies and pieces that look at what a character is going through at a particular moment.

- Hamlet. This is my "anything goes" play. I headcanon him as either gay or bisexual depending on the production and I loved Maxine Peake's recent exploration of Hamlet as a trans man, if you want to pick up on that. Or anything about how his/her/their sexual and gender identity affects how he feels about his position in the royal family. Feel free to transpose this to any setting you like – any period in history for example, or a non-Western society maybe? How is life at university different from life back with his family? If you want to do something relationshippy, feel free to write/ship him with any of the younger generation – Ophelia, Horatio, Laertes, heck, even Rosencrantz or Guildenstern.

- The Two Gentlemen of Verona. We don't really get told a lot about Silvia. She must really love Valentine, to give up everything she has in Milan and follow him to Verona. Maybe tell me more about what happens after the play ends. Do Proteus and Julia find their way back to one another? How does Silvia feel about Proteus and Valentine still being friends? How does she navigate life in Verona?

- A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oberon/Titania. Give me sparks, give me fire. They're the kind of couple that has a very strong relationship that is also very explosive. A version where Titania doesn't give in to Oberon at the end of the play would be AMAZING, but anything that explores their relationship is cool, either from before the play or afterwards.

- The Tempest. My favourite character in this play is Ariel. Something that explores how he sees humans would be amazing, and/or something about what happens to him after Prospero's power over him is broken and he is free.

For mamculuna

General likes and dislikes: I like well-written fic, and don't love gratuitous sex and violence of any type--but sex and violence are OK if they advance the story or clarify the characters somehow.

- Winter's Tale--story or play, any characters

- The Tempest--story or play, any characters


- Othello--story or play, any characters

For Meatball42

General likes and dislikes: I would really like either a missing or rewritten scene from the play, or a complete AU. What I really don't want is the whole play rewritten with whatever change or perspective shift. I'd love to see your interpretations of the characters and their motivations; even in a Library AU or whatever, characterization coming through is the best thing to me :) That being said, a Library AU or anything specific and fun like that would be amazing. Gen is great, as are any ships, canon or otherwise.

- Hamlet- Anything exploring Horatio's presence at Elsinore, or backstory thereof. Alternately, literally anything where Ophelia gets to have motivations rooted in her own life, rather than just reacting to Hamlet's actions, would be great, even if you go AU in the play. I really dug the BBC's Hamlet with David Tennant, and Kenneth Branagh's, so that's usually what I'm imagining, if that helps, and I wouldn't at all mind a Modern AU for this play, whether you chose to incorporate anything from the play's plot or not. Any relationship combination of Horatio, Hamlet, and Ophelia is great, as is gen, and I only request that if you write Hamlet and Ophelia you actually sell it, not just have it there because it's canon, if that makes sense?


- Othello- Although I loved this play a lot and really did like the character of Iago, I'll admit to being disappointed in the basically sad ending. I really liked Emilia, and Othello at times, and Cassio and Desdemona's relationship was really nice. I'd love to see something, either set int he context of the play, or in a modernized version, where Iago doesn't win. You don't have to go into detail, unless you want to! but I want to see these lovers and friends trying to bond again after realizing that they'd been turned against each other.


- Measure for Measure- The stretches of integrity and compromise in this play really drew me in the first time I read it, and I'd love to read any character interacting with an OC, or a minor character, in some way that addresses their moral struggles with the events in the play. Like, Angelo has a scholar friend who he talks to, in the hypothetical, about honor and selfishness or whatever, and they have dinner and wine together. Or Isabella brainstorms her dilemma with a childhood friend. Or you could modernize any scene or concept in the play, really I just love these characters and the mix of morality and guilty desire that all of them exhibit. Basically if you enjoy writing this story, I'll enjoy reading it.


- Twelfth Night- For this play I'd sort of dig a modern AU where any or all of the characters have to figure out how they feel about their accidental (or intentional) gay romances. One of the fun things about this play is that you can interpret pretty much any relationship in a number of ways. Basically, have fun with that. I associate this play a lot with music and poetry and dance, too, probably because I read it for an acting workshop, so anything like that you want to involve would be sweet. If it helps, I picture the movie version with Helena Bonham Carter whenever I think about this play.


For Mific

General likes and dislikes: I love radical AUs and crossovers. Love humor, competence and interesting women, although I'm mainly a slash fan. I don't really have any major dislikes.

- Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania/Oberon &/or Titania/Bottom &/or Puck/anyone. More about the Faerie court or an AU based on that, would be great.


- Macbeth. Lady Macbeth/anyone. Would love a modern AU or crossover femslash.


- Taming of the Shrew. Katherina/no-one or Katerina/any female character. i.e. I'd prefer an anti-misogynistic outcome, with Kate not giving in to Petruchio.


- Hamlet. I'd love a genderswapped AU, with Hamlet female and Ophelia her mad boyfriend.
Modern setting would be excellent if you like, and they could well be on drugs. Well, they are students! Or slash with Hamlet and his friends, again in a modern student setting.



For Small_Hobbit

General likes and dislikes: I like character studies, and am happy to read crack. I don't like PWP, graphic violence (off-screen is okay).


- Hamlet. Any characters. Go free with your imagination; explore "What Ifs"; or whatever takes your fancy

- Macbeth. Any characters. Maybe look at the backstory for one/some of the characters. Or Macbeth in space. Or really, anything in between.


- Tempest. Any characters. Perhaps further into the dream state.


- Winter's Tale. Any characters.


- Twelfth Night. Any characters


- King Lear