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Name/username:
Fic journal:
E-mail address:

Pairings/friendships I'd like to receive: (If you only have one desired pairing/friendship, please try to include at least one alternative idea, just in case.)

Prompts: Genres, situations, storylines, kinks, etc. I would like to receive:
Prompts: Genres, situations, storylines, kinks, etc. I WOULD NOT like to receive:

I would like to write (pairings/friendships and prompts):
I WILL NOT write (pairings/friendships and prompts):
Rating preference (written and received):

I can beta! (Y/N)
I can pinch hit! (Y/N)
I have these things to say that were not addressed in any of the other categories:

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THIS COMMENT IS REALLY LONG AND I FEEL REALLY SELF-CONSCIOUS SORRY Y'ALL

Name/username:

cupcake4mafia
Fic journal: cupcake4mafia @ ao3
E-mail address: will pm to mod

Pairings/friendships I'd like to receive: Nino/any Arashi member (or Nino/all Arashi members ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), preferably not Ohmiya alone (they are my fave, but I want to mix things up) but Ohmiya+1 is welcome!

Prompts: Genres, situations, storylines, kinks, etc. I would like to receive:
AU ideas:
- Nino is a ruthless paparazzi photographer who has never thought twice about the effect he has on the lives of his targets - until the night he snaps a photo of an A-list celebrity’s supernatural secret.
- Nino is an overpowered superhero who is bored with it and really just wants to stay home (think One-Punch Man but with even less motivation) then a plucky sidekick or campy villian gets him back in the game?
- Any kind of con-artist Nino AU: current mark crosses paths with a past mark? ambiguously flirty relationship with a detective who’s trying to catch up with him? maybe he gave his con-artist life up years ago but now he’s gotta do One Last Job? I love all that shit.

Non-AU:
- Nino and one of the members have been sending really sexual text messages to each other (for way too long to pretend it’s a joke) and they’ve never talked about it face to face.
- Someone (likely Jun or Sho) convinces Nino to take a trip to New York or LA with them. That person doesn’t realize yet how complicated Nino’s feelings about America are.
- Nino has been taking on extra work in exchange for keeping one of the members out of trouble with the agency. That member finds out and confronts him about it.
(When it comes to non-AU I prefer either “getting together after years of sexual tension” or “we used to fool around back in the day but this is Different” kind of relationships)

If none of these prompts are working for you I promise really will love any fic that's focused on my general Nino likes:
- avoiding emotional intimacy like the plague (related: cracking jokes in romantic/sexual situations)
- playing the bad guy to save someone else’s face
- being a bit sleazy at times (the guy who says “if I’m alone with a girl I’ll become an American”)
- that constant need for physical affection he has vs. his desire to be a hermit
- bisexual Nino
- (power) bottom Nino

If you want to make my day and write some smut for me, then I’ll let you know I’m a big fan of awkward/almost-failed first times that end well. I also love kink (particularly: improvised bondage, edging, praise) and I have a special place in my heart for accidentally discovering kinks.

Prompts: Genres, situations, storylines, kinks, etc. I WOULD NOT like to receive: First-person fic. Gen fic. Unhappy endings (hopeful/bittersweet is okay). Anything more than a passing reference to Johnny Kitagawa (if you need a “boss” figure Mary and Julie are okay). Distant future fic (i.e. married with kids etc.). Kids in general. “I’m straight except for you” is a trope I’m tired of (“I guess I’m not as straight as I thought I was” is fine by me, though). Also, as much as I love ~tangled webs of secrets~ I don’t really enjoy “there’s been a simple misunderstanding that I’m too stubborn to explain” kind of plots. When it comes to sex/kink, I’m hard to squick. If I had to pick something, I would say humiliation kink is kind of hit-or-miss for me.

I would like to write (pairings/friendships and prompts): Pairings are same as what I’d like to receive. I would prefer to write fic with a pairing, but I can keep it to ambiguous flirting if need be. Pretty open when it comes to genre. I love conflict and complicated relationships, but I’m also into humor and cracky AU. I tend to write dialogue-heavy fic - at least that’s how it seems to me?

I WILL NOT write (pairings/friendships and prompts): Nino/anyone outside of Arashi as a main pairing. Non-Arashi celebrities in general (I know enough to add some references here and there, but not enough to include them as major characters). Having/taking care of children. Those are just things I don’t think I can write well. I have a few deal-breakers like non-con/main character death/things involving family members, but it seems like from the prompts that are already up that those should be easy to avoid.

Rating preference (written and received): Written: Any rating. Received: I prefer mature to explicit, but don’t feel pressured if it’s just not working out

I can beta! (Y/N) Yes, I’d love to!
I can pinch hit! (Y/N) Sorry, no.
I have these things to say that were not addressed in any of the other categories: I’m very interested in writing AU but I’m not 100% confident in my abilities there yet, so I hope I can be matched with someone who wouldn’t mind receiving a non-AU fic - just to be safe.

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