Austen Exchange 2022 Letter

Dear Janeite,

How excited I am about this exchange! In truth, I cannot believe that we had to wait until the year of our Lord 2022 to partake in a fanfiction exchange for the works and adaptations of that most exalted of novelists.

Okay, that is already getting old. But I really am so very stoked about this exchange and can't wait to read what you write me for it!

I'm Sandel on AO3 and I have requested eight different fandoms för this exchange:

1. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
4. Emma - Jane Austen
5. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. Crossover Fandom
8. Persuasion (2022)

I provide some musings, takes and prompts below. Feel free to take or leave any and all of it; it's intended to help, not to hinder. I am always interested in alternative takes and reads on things I love. (Or, in the case of Persuasion 2022, things I have complicated feelings about. 😋)

Oh, and I am open to receiving treats! 😊

Likes:

• Any and all AUs (some faves: canon divergence AU, ballet AU, detective AU, historical AU, pirate AU, fairy tale AU, mob AU)
• Character studies & relationship studies
• Angst (with or without a happy ending)
• Period typical bigotry (when plot appropriate)
• Characters being surprisingly non-bigoted for their time
• Lavender marriages
• No bigotry AUs
• Complicated relationships, power imbalances & interpersonal conflicts
• Manipulation & intrigue
• Loyalty & twisted loyalty
• Infidelity
• Unrequited love
• Weird, twisted incest-y vibes without actual incest
• Sweet and wholesome relationships
• Characters having fun together
• Non-monogamy (both when handled well and when messy)
• Identity exploration (in general or a particular aspect – headcanons welcome!)
• Trans and non-binary characters (headcanons welcome!)
• Gender non-conformity
• Neurodivergent characters (headcanons welcome!)
• Playful, joyful kink
• Kink exploration & characters stumbling into kinks
• Worldbuilding
• Trope subversion & trope deconstruction
• Stylistic experiments
• Non-traditional storytelling
• Snippets or single chapters from a larger, mostly untold, narrative
• Epistolary storytelling
• Full on Austen pastiche
• Research and/or expertise shining through in the fic
• Wordplay & wit both in narrative and dialogue

DNWs:

• Mentions or depictions of cancer
• Depictions of rape/non-con (off-screen rape is fine)
• Depictions of underage sex (fade to black is fine)
• Sex work sex scenes (fade to black is fine)
• Nuclear family incest
• Omegaverse
• Mpreg
• Tentacles
• Scat

( Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen )

( Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen )

( Mansfield Park - Jane Austen )

( Emma - Jane Austen )

( Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen )

( Persuasion - Jane Austen )

( Crossover Fandom )

( Persuasion (2022) )

Phew, that's all! Good luck – and remember that optional details are optional!

Sandel