Hey Ho, Let's Go APE!!!

(NB: My AO3 username is sweetcarolanne. Link to AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/sweetcarolanne)

Hello, dear writer or artist (I love both forms of fanwork equally)! Thank you for being willing to create for me. The prompts below are suggestions that I hope might inspire your creativity but feel free to adapt or change things and add other elements as well if the story or art seems to require it. As long as you stay away from my hard DNWs and include some of what I do like (though of course you don’t need to include absolutely everything), you’re golden! Though some prompts may seem longer than others, I love these songs and the stories they tell all just as much as each other and would be equally delighted to receive any one of them as my gift.

As far as writing tenses and POVs and art styles go, I am sure to love anything you come up with. I don't have any DNWs regarding tenses, POV or types of artwork - my only DNWs are those listed below under hard DNWs.

For shippy works I prefer f/f, m/m and F/m (femdom), and I also love gen.

Things I DO like in a story or artwork:

- fluff
- romance
- the deepening of emotional ties between characters
- friendship becoming love
- overcoming and healing from trauma with the help of a loved one (or loved ones or friends or just kind souls)
- hurt/comfort
- spooky horror, creepy atmosphere
- creepy cuteness or uncanny valley
- angsty scenarios that wind up with a happy or hopeful ending
- strengthening of comradeship bonds and characters being willing to go the extra mile to help someone they care about
- fun and humor
- someone stumbling on an unlikely but completely right for the situation solution when disaster looks likely to be looming
- found families and/or kidfic
- pansexual characters
- femdom
- smut (for some of my smutty likes, see my Smut 4 Smut letter here: https://schlitzie-ramone.dreamwidth.org/12531.html
- characters in multi-gender threesomes ALL being attracted to each other, with f/f or m/m as well as f/m

My hard DO NOT WANTS are:

- noncon
- main character death or death of one or both halves of the main pairing
- unhappy endings and complete and pure angst with no hope in sight
- homophobia
- female characters being submissive to males, mainly sexually but also socially
- surprise switch in a F/m pairing or threesome where the male(s) takes control at the end, or someone says that it's the male character's turn to dominate next time
- characters in a pairing or threesome with male and female characters involved making a big deal of being "straight" and finding only the opposite sex attractive
- if you write smut where there are characters of different genders involved, having PIV being seen as the "main event" or "real" sex
- complete and utter darkfic - I do love spooky horror, but no gore or deathfic please
- amputation
- eye trauma
- graphic depictions of child or animal abuse (although allusions to those happening in the past are OK if the story requires it)
- unrequested ships being the focus of the fanwork
- animal characters being changed into humans or "always a human" AUs
- character bashing

Now, on to song requests and some possible prompt ideas! <3

( Requests and Prompts )

Hello, dear writer or artist (I love both forms of fanwork equally)! Thank you for being willing to create for me. The prompts below are suggestions that I hope might inspire your creativity but feel free to adapt or change things and add other elements as well if the story or art seems to require it. As long as you stay away from my hard DNWs and include some of what I do like (though of course you don’t need to include absolutely everything), you’re golden! Though some prompts may seem longer than others, I love the songs all just as much as each other and would be equally delighted to receive any one of them as my gift, and I enjoy both shippy/romantic stories and gen.

Things I do like: fluff, romance, the deepening of emotional ties between characters, friendship becoming love, overcoming and healing from trauma with the help of a loved one (or loved ones or friends or just kind souls), hurt/comfort, angsty scenarios that wind up with a happy or hopeful ending, strengthening of comradeship bonds and characters being willing to go the extra mile to help someone they care about, fun, humor and someone stumbling on an unlikely but completely right for the situation solution when disaster looks likely to be looming, found families, kidfic, m/m and f/f smut (for some of my smutty likes, see my Smut Swap letter here: https://schlitzie-ramone.dreamwidth.org/6093.html)

My hard Do Not Wants are: outright non-con, main character death or death of one or both halves of the main pairing, unhappy endings and complete and pure angst with no hope in sight, female characters being submissive to males, darkfic, graphic depictions of child or animal abuse (although allusions to those happening in the past are OK if the story requires it), unrequested ships, animal characters being changed into humans, explicit m/f smut.

Now, onto the songs!

( Requests )

Well, hello dear, lovely creative person who got assigned challenging little me! Aren't you brave?

Seriously, though, I'm not requesting anything too weird or hard to do (I hope!)

A few little things - I tend to prefer slash/femslash to het if you put any romance in there. And I also tend to prefer cute, happy and/or funny to dark and angsty. My last and second-to-last requests, to be sure, do have the potential to be horror-themed or mildly angsty, which I’m fine with, but even then I would prefer atmospheric and chilling and delightfully spooky or angst with a happy ending to out-and-out gory or hopelessly angsty if you go that route.

My hard and fast do not wants are unhappy endings, excessive angst, non-con and character death (with the possible exception of Request #6 - see below).

A lot of my requests this round are for circus, sideshow and carnival-themed songs. I’m getting well known for my love of such things – especially the old-time freak shows and the darling pinheads (some of the songs are about pinheads, but even for the ones that aren't and have a carnival theme, it would be totally awesome, if appropriate for the story or picture, if a sweet pinhead character was included, even if they were only a side character rather than the protagonist). But of course there’s so much more fun stuff that can be put into these types of stories/artworks as well – the Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds, the hot dogs and cotton candy, the performers of all kinds – especially the clowns! Happy clowns, funny clowns, melancholy clowns, scary clowns – I love ‘em!!! :)

Not all of the requests have circus themes, however – so if you really can’t do circus, there are other things you can write or draw in there! :)

On to the fandoms and requests! In no particular order!

( Requests under here! )