General Preferences

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General Exchange Preferences 2021 Letter

AO3 Username: StopTalkingAtMe

Welcome to my this letter, Dear Creator. This is just a brief guide to the sort of style and tropes that are particular favourites of mine, but I like lot of different things, so I'm sure whatever you produce I'll love.

Table of Contents

• General Preferences
  
  • General Likes
  • Art Likes
  • Smut Likes
  • DNWs

General Likes

General Likes

• Character studies and introspection
• Loneliness and isolation
• Angst
• Atmospheric description, scenery porn, sensory description
• World-building, backstory, and character development.
• Horror.
• Closed Circle - Stranded with a murderer in your midst
• Case-fic.
• Whump
• Endings of all kinds, happy, bleak or bittersweet.
• Canon-divergent AUs, especially post-canon ones where the bad guys win.
• Pining
• Descriptions of scars
• Main Character Death and grief.
• Crossovers (If you have reason to believe I know and like the other fandom, go for it).
• Dimension Travel
• Mirror Universe
• Post-Apocalypse
• Stranded Together With No Way Home
• Time Loops
• that fic genre w/ long lowercase title (&parenthetical) that’s sexy moody multilayered & complicated
• Older characters finding love.

Smut Likes

• Sex Pollen and aftermath
• Aliens Made Them Do It
• Angry Sex
• Careful Sex with an Injured Partner
• Clothed Sex
• Comfort Sex
• Dubcon when requested (mutual dubcon of the something-made-us-do-it kind is ALWAYS okay even when not explicitly requested)
• Foreplay - Kissing down partner's spine as you slide down/unzip their top
• Hate Sex - Characters having hate sex gradually catch feelings
• Kisses pressed against the back of the neck and/or along bare/mostly-bare shoulders
• Mild bondage and other forms of gentle restraint
• Morning after (amazing sex the night before)
• Oral Sex
• Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
• Sex in grimy, grim, uncomfortable places
• Sex - Loving Soft Gentle Submission to Inexperienced Character
• Sex - Touch-Starved Character So Overwhelmed They Don't Know What to Do With Themselves
• Sex Pollen - Both/All Affected
• Threesomes

General Art Likes

In terms of artwork I'm open to a lot of different things, but I'll particularly love something which captures the atmosphere of canon, whether that be beautiful scenery, or something grim and gritty. If it suits the fandom and ship, I'm not averse to a bit of gore and violence either, and there's a couple where I'd particularly like some elements of horror. I love contrast and lots of rich intricate detail, but I'm also open to simpler art with softer, more muted colours if that's your style. I also quite like diptychs and triptychs, as well as the use of stylised borders which incorporate themes and objects from canon, such as clockwork, books, or vines. Artist-wise, I'm particularly fond of art nouveau and the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but seriously, anything.

DNWs

A/B/O, Noncon, Incest (unless requested), Bestiality (monsters don't count here), Scat and waterplay, Formalised D/s dynamics (bondage and other forms of restraint are OK), Underage, Het anal sex, Breathplay (antagonistic choking is fine), Fisting, Sexualised lactation, Any variation of the word 'come' in a sexual context spelled as 'cum' (please use 'come', 'came', 'precome' etc)

Thanks for reading!