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Dear creator,
All my letters on my DW are fair game, including my last FIAB letter, which I left up even though I ended up not signing up. I’ve linked some relevant ones below. But please only use the DNWs from this letter! There are some things that no longer bother me (or that I’ve found I actually really like!), as well as a few DNWs that I found over time, so past letter’s DNWs are somewhat redundant.
I haven’t left any specific story prompts in this letter, but you can find plenty for most of these canons in other letters. But even if you can’t, I’m honestly open to anything. Hopefully my likes can be a nice jumping off point.
I wanted to add medium prompts, but I didn’t get time. Any "any" I requested, I very much meant, but left a few specific opt-ins in case they were more inspiring. I’m really excited by anything, including pure fic, so I look forward to seeing what you come up with!
Take liberties, as long as they don’t brush into my DNWs, and I hope you have fun.
General Likes
Art Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs
The Folk of the Air
Sin Eater
Harry Potter
A Night in the Lonesome October
Star Wars Sequels
Dimension 20
Sandkings - George R.R. Martin
Original Work
Detective Grimoire
General Likes
- Casefic
- Darkfic *
- PWP
- Angst, all the angst, there is seriously no such thing as "too much angst"
- Hurt/comfort & whump **
- Second Person POV
- Pining, including unrequited even for requested ships
- Bathing/washing, being dried with a towel
- Power dynamics being explored
- Forced proximity setups: snowed in, trapped/stranded/handcuffed together, huddling for warmth, too sick to move, captivity etc.
- Being emotionally overloaded or overwhelmed
- Height differences
- Touch-starved or stoic characters
- Sad or self-destructive or angry or self-loathing characters, suffering for any reason but also possibly for reasons they brought on themselves
- Bisexual characters
- Ghosts
- Cooking and food, especially food sharing
- Enemies and annoyances to lovers, rivalries especially flirty ones
- Lotsa repressed feelings
- Regrets, rejections, repression, all those angsty things
- Loss of mental or bodily autonomy (i.e. through possession, drugs, sex pollen, truth serum, body swaps, manipulation, curses etc.)
- Soulmate AUs especially words/last words, especially when this trope is plumbed for angst or twisted to be horror
- Horror ***
- Nonsexual intimacy
- Guilt-laden infidelity
- Messy characters in extremely messy situations
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Things I opt-in to: mentioned past relationships or background ships, major character death, experimental formats inc. interactive fiction, pregnancy (but not breeding kink, that’s a DNW), graphic violence, sad or ambiguous endings, suicide, ships breaking up or one/both of them dying (or killing each other)
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All of the below are non-exhaustive lists to illustrate what I like in some of my broader likes — but feel free to go off-script if you think it’ll fit a ship well. As long as it doesn’t hit my DNWs, I’m pretty open!
*Things I like in darkfic: noncon and dub con; Came Back Wrong; Something Made Them Do It; betrayal; grief; dealing with past trauma or receiving the trauma within the fic; suicide or dealing with suicidal thoughts (or being gaslit into suicide); being haunted (figuratively or literally) by past wrongs they committed; actions motivated by self-loathing or loneliness; torture; revenge; non-consensual non-sexual actions; boundary violations, and anything appropriate from any other list :D
**Things I like in hurt/comfort: whump; sickness; injury; comfort from the enemy; being severely bloodied or beaten; overworking to the point of sickness; touch-starvation; emotional hurt heaped high; feeling dead inside; feeling undeserved of comfort; bathing/washing; comfort applied by the person who hurt them; being embarrassed about their hurt; the comforter being embarrassed or guilty that they are attracted to or aroused by the hurt party; pregnancy and related sickness or discomfort; sex as comfort; all the pining possible; being hurt trying to protect the person they care about; forced proximity; crying when you’ve been trying so hard to hold it in
***Things I like in horror: please see my Holiday Horror and Multifandom Horror lists for both horror tropes I like and horror canons I enjoy and wouldn’t mind seeing emulated or pastiched.
Art Likes
I like a wide variety of art! Yeah, very helpful, I know, but I really do! Bold colours, black & white/greyscale, jewel tones, dark neons, pixel art etc.
I love interesting compositions and perspectives, and shots that feel like the characters were caught in the moment — intimacy, basically. I really like dark and angsty or intimate and intense vibes, or any kind of creeping dread or tentative atmospheres.
I love size differences emphasised in less traditional ways: the larger partner kneeling in front of the smaller one; big muscular women with huge hands clutching their smaller partner; small love interests threatening their bigger partner etc. But I also like the traditional ways too, with men with large hands holding their smaller partner, people leaning down to kiss their partner, the smaller person up on tip toes to kiss their partner etc. etc.
Size difference isn’t all I like, though! I also like intimacy in all its forms (sexual or non-sexual), interesting lighting, things that look both dangerous and sexy, anyone kneeling for anything, hand-holding (in any circumstance, but especially in sex), blood, characters who can’t bare to look at the person giving them pleasure, torture scenes, and anything that shows angst. Small moments of intimacy captured in larger stories is nice. Hurt/comfort is always, always a winner. But also, I don’t know dick about art, so whatever you think is best probably is!
I don’t have specific art-related DNWs. Any rating is fine, also.
Smut Likes
Rough sex, vanilla sex, hand kink, enthusiastic cunnilingus, public use and gangbangs, being held down, biting/scratching, bittersweet sex, noncon, dubcon, accidental stimulation, heat cycles, face-fucking, extremely emotionally charged sex, spanking, casual D/s, first times, humour and awkwardness, aftercare, femsub, fingerfucking, shoving fingers into mouths, public and semi-public sex, Bad Guys Made Them Do It, pining while fucking, sex pollen inc. only one partner doused, affectionate use of the word "slut/whore" (like "you’re a good little slut"), showing trust through sex acts, voyeurism, masturbation (solo, mutual and guided), frottage, clothed and semi-clothed sex, handholding while fucking
I’m okay with either come/cum as spelling and with pussy, cunt or vagina as terminology for vaginas.
DNWs
- Anyone under 16 involved in explicit sex (keeping ages vague is fine, though)
- Unaroused victim in noncon (but arousal can be a fear response or induced rather than real arousal)
- Noncon involving trans characters
- Scat, watersports, emetophilia, belly kinks (inc. feeding & inflation), fisting, oviposition, breeding kink
- CSA in anything more than mentions (other kinds of CA are fine to be featured)
- The phrase “to the hilt”
- Mpreg
- Readerfic
The Folk of the Air - Holly Black
Where to Find:
3 books: The Cruel Prince (385 pages), The Wicked King (369 pages) and The Queen of Nothing (321 pages), for a total of 1,075 pages.
There is also supplemental material in the form of a novelette and a novella, respectively: The Lost Sisters (from Taryn’s perspective, 49 pages) and How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (post-canon, Cardan’s POV, 138 pages).
All page counts approximate and based on ebooks. The audiobooks for all are great too.
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For all of these requests, I’m open to any background (or foreground!) pairings. I find Taryn/Locke compelling, I love Heather/Vivi (especially anything that touches on the Memory Incident) and enjoy the barest glimpses we get of Eva/Justin and Eva/Madoc and would love to see them explored further. But I don’t mind non-canon pairings either — Taryn/Nicasia, Taryn/Madoc, Jude/Nicasia, Jude/Balekin, Jude/Daine etc., it’s all good and I’m here for it. Full gen for the requests its appropriate for, or ship-focused only for the ship request is also very welcomed!
>>> Jude/Cardan
I love these two with all my heart. They are messy, they are terrible, they are stubborn and driven and, had plot not gotten in the way, would surely have destroyed each other. I love pretty much any era, including post-canon, but I do have a soft spot for The Cruel Prince.
I have left lots of prompts in the past, so feel free to plunder any previous letters. Otherwise, go wild on on my likes or medium tags. (P.S. We don’t talk about the fact I got the canon name wrong in the tag; I did it in my first letter and cannot be bothered to fix it)
>>> Jude & Taryn
>>> Jude & Madoc
>>> Taryn & Madoc
>>> Jude & Vivienne
The dysfunctional family dynamics at play in this book are straight to my id and I’d love to see more of them! The Duartes aren’t exactly a "gather round the fire and sing Christmas carols" kind of family, and Madoc certainly is a formidable father figure. I also love the glimpses of sisterly bonds we see between Vivi, Taryn and Jude and would love more.
I don’t have any specific prompts for this, so feel free to go wild on on my likes or medium tags.
>>> Worldbuilding
This is such a rich world and I would love to see more! I don’t have a lot to say here, because I’m not particularly picky about what you concentrate on.
For the Modern Faerie Tales lore: I have read the first two books, but a very long time ago and I don’t remember much, so you can bring in or leave out whatever you want from those. So don’t feel beholden to them, but if you do want to include stuff, that’s cool too!
You can find prompts in my FFFX letter (last subsection of the TFotA section), but if there is any aspect of the world that is interesting to you, feel free to explore it, including using any of my medium tags. I will always be happy to see that.
Sin Eater - Megan Campisi
Where to Find:
Single book, 303 pages, anywhere books are found.
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>>> May Owens
>>> May/OFC
>>> May & Ruth
>>> May & Original Sin Eater
>>> Worldbuilding
I really liked this book. May’s voice was so strong and the world was so interesting. I’m up for world building, character building, canon divergent, or non-mundane AUs (so no high school or cafe, please) as long as the Sin Eater job is retained.
If you want to write a crossover into any other canon I’ve ever requested or written, please feel free to do so, too. I’d love to see if that canon influences how people treat sin eating, or if it affects the logistics. Fusions are also great!
I have left prompts in my MFH letter for this, but that’s horror-specific. Feel free to go wild in whatever direction you like here using my likes or medium tags — it doesn’t exactly have a fandom and I’ll lap up any content.
Harry Potter
>>> Lucius/Lily
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This is a bit of an odd ship, I know, but it is one of my favourite HP rare pairs for whatever reason. I’m a real sucker for Slytherin-Gryffindor relationships, what can I say. I like my Lily to be sure-footed and frank, with a lot of force behind her, but possibly a little naive or inexperienced. And Lucius is just…yeah, his whole can of worms.
I wrote much more specific info on the kind of thing I like between them in my FFFX letter, if you want more info, but basically I love it messy and possibly dark. Noncon is totally great, as is dub con, but consensual-but-a-bad-idea is also just as indulgent to me.
There are also prompts for these two in my FFFX letter, but do what you wish, in fic or any of my medium tags. There’s not a huge amount of content for them and I’m always so happy with more.
A Night in the Lonesome October
Canon-Specific DNW:
Sex or romance between human and animal companions
Where to Find:
Single book of 280 pages, with 31 chapters that correspond to each day of October.
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>>> Jack & Snuff
>>> Graymalk & Snuff
>>> Graymalk & Jack & Crazy Jill & Snuff
A man and his dog, a dog and his cat friend, a cat and her crazy cat lady owner <3 I love this book so much. I read it for the first time last year, but I’m planning now to reread it every October, because what joy to be able to read a chapter a day over the spookiest month! I love all the zany and tropey characters, the escalations through the nights, but even more I loved the companions and their relationships with each other. I love the tension as we get closer to the big day, and trying to puzzle out who is an opener and a closer.
I’m open to Graymalk/Snuff or Jill/Jack content, but I would rather no explicit on-the-page sexual content for the animals. I also love non-sexual but codependent relationships between companions and their respective owners.
I have fairly specific prompts in my FFFX letter, but, otherwise, go wild on on my likes or medium tags.
>>> Worldbuilding
I love the hyper-focus of this book, but I also would adore some fic that explores the world presented. I’ve gone with Original Opener or Closer characters, but if you want to use one or more of the characters in the books, go for it!
I really am wide open. If you have an idea or an avenue in the book you want to explore that I haven’t spoken about here, please run with it. If you don’t want to use any characters for your idea, that’s also very very possible. But I would also be very pleased with any of my prompts. I’m easy!
I have more specific prompts in my FFFX letter for this too. But truly, go wild, including with any of my medium requests.
Star Wars Sequels
Where to Find:
Disney+, 3 movies.
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>>> Hux/Rose
>>> Ben/Rose
>>> Phasma/Rose
>>> Poe/Finn/Ben
>>> Rey/Ben
A mishmash of all my favourite ships from the sequels! I have a bunch of prompts in my letters in the past, some general, some specific to ships, and you can find them with this tag. But I’m pretty much open to everything from any requested mediums or straight-up fic. I really love these characters and I will always happily consume more content for them!!
I’m not a huge fan of TROS and prefer not to go with Rey Palpatine but if you want to do something fun or unexpected with her Palpatine lineage, you go for it. I’m also open to canon divergence of all kinds.
Dimension 20
Where to Find:
The first season of Fantasy High is on YouTube for free. The second is on Dropout.
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>>> Riz/Fabian
I love these two together so much. Riz’s admiration and love for Fabian, Fabian’s begrudging respect that morphs into genuine care — the hand-written business cards, the eating of glass, the worry when he’s kidnapped. Ugh, it’s all so cute and shippy.
I’ve written a fair amount about them in previous letters, found under this tag. Otherwise, go wild on on my likes or medium tags.
Sandkings - George R.R. Martin
Where to Find:
Weirdly, not available for free through legal means, but it is collected in Martin’s Dreamsongs: Volume I.
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>>> Simon Kress & Orange Sand Kings
>>> Simon Kress
>>> Orange Sand Kings
>>> Jala Wo & Shade
>>> Jala Wo & Shade & White Sand King
>>> Jala Wo
>>> Shade
>>> White Sand Kings
>>> Worldbuilding
I love creepy crawlies, and yet, after I read Sandkings for the first time, I felt itchy and uncomfortable for hours. It’s not a fun story, but it is incredibly enthralling, addictive and terrifying. I didn’t even think I was a big fan of Martin (his writing in ASOIAF was never my favourite), but this…wow. It’s so good.
As far as I can tell, there’s not yet any fan content for this on AO3 so I was very pleased when I saw it had been nominated! I would be open to anything — absolutely anything. Bring humanity to the characters or creatures, show me what the maws do next or how Jala and/or Shade handle it, give me more creatures in this world, or scare the absolute bejesus out of me, repulse me, make me a creeping dread. Or do something completely unexpected in some of the mediums! Wherever your mood takes you, I’ll gladly follow.
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On Original Works, please feel free to go hog wild in terms of the requested mediums. I think it would take me 10k to make suggestions for each pairing and medium tag, so instead I’ve left a little snippet of what I imagine for each pair. But, as always, feel free to go with a different interpretation if it strikes you. I’m easy.
>>> Alien Space Captain/Human First Mate
Any general configuration welcome here. I love cultural differences, miscommunications due to those culture clashes, loyalty kink, bad histories with humans or aliens influencing how either party interprets the other (even if it turns out their wrong).
I’d be keen on secret relationships, mutual pining, not wanting to abuse one’s authority/break the chain of command, or even outright actual abuse of authority met by submissive or reluctant first mates.
I prefer aliens to be humanoid, and I’m not into oviposition (a DNW) or hugely into tentacles (not a DNW — I don’t mind them! They just don’t do anything for me but I’m happy for them to be a non-focus bonus). Otherwise, go for it.
>>> Bisexual New Queen In Precarious Political Position/Suitors To Join Harem Who May Be Dangerous
Mmm I love this. The lack of sure-footing on both sides, intrigue, gangbangs, vying for attention, proving oneself, suspicions, lack of trust but lots of chemistry, public/ritual sex, assassination attempts, or anything else you can cook up with this. I’m also happy for some good old fashion attempts at courting too, especially if they are strained or full of double-meaning dialogue. The possibilities are endless!
Suitors of any gender welcome, including a mix.
>>> Chick Lit Protagonist/Action Movie Protagonist (F/F)
Chick Lit Protagonist/Action Movie Protagonist (M/F)
This is such a fun one! I love the worlds colliding, with characters of very different sensibilities and skills, but both competent in their genres.
For the M/F, I would love a male chick lit protagonist, trying to sweep an action hero off her feet and her having none of it.
For both, annoyances-to-lovers is a perennial fave, as is fish-out-of-water stories where either party needs to dip into the other’s world (chick lit protag conducting espionage; action movie protag forced to dress up for a fancy party etc. etc.) or interesting subversions. Played straight is just as fun though.
>>> College Student Sister/Twin Brother Required to Procure Her for His Fraternity
I’m such a sucker for Fraternity Made Them Do It incest, so I was delighted to find this in the tag set! I don’t have a lot to say about this one, it does what it says on the tin, I think.
>>> Evil King/Girl of Noble Descent Sent to Marry Him
Does she melt the evil King’s heart? Or does he break hers? I am very into it, either way, dark or romantic. Or, let’s have our cake and eat it, and make it codependent and very dysfunctional but they both find a rhythm to it, no matter what that means.
>>> Father & Male Poker Buddies/Teen Daughter
As per my DNW, I would like the daughter to be over 16, or the age to not be dealt on.
Another that I think says what it does on the tin! Maybe he bargains with her, but maybe she’s just part of the entertainment he provides on poker nights. Is he involved in it? Does she know it’s going to happen? Is she into it, or just going along with it?
>>> Flirty detective with heavy past/Her new assistant spying for the main suspect (F/F)
This is a straight-to-my-id pairing for sure. I love grizzled detectives, I love spies who have a change of heart and who, despite their best intentions, develop ~feelings.
Maybe the assistant really thought the detective was shady or underhanded, and realises she’s been lied to. Or maybe the detective had good reasons — or just plain wins her over despite her shadiness. Any way you want, I’m here for it.
>>> Journalist Taken Hostage/Journalist Taken Hostage (F/M)
Codependence galore! I love captives finding sanctuary with each other, their only link to their own humanity and feeling in any way normal. Hard-won trust, betrayals, suspicions, trauma, trauma-bonding, nightmares, hurt/comfort, captive sex, Bad Guys Made Them Do It (and maybe Then They Kept Doing It Anyway?), truth serum vs. sex pollen — I love all the possibilities!
>>> Kidnapped Princess/Bandits Ransoming Her
There two possible directions I can see this going in:
- Played straight, with them deciding that they’ll have some fun while they have a Princess, especially one so arrogant that they really need to teach her a lesson.
- Or, subverted, in that the Princess has paid to be ransomed for some reason (to raise her profile, to punish her parents for some infraction, because she wants the money and the King or Queen won’t pay her more allowance, because she’s bored etc.) and either gets in over her head with this group, or wants to play at danger by getting involved.
There might be other directions too, and I’m happy for those directions to be explored if neither of these scenarios appeal.
>>> Lady of the House/Male Secretary (F/M)
I really like this. I’d love some loneliness or isolation to be involved. Age gaps are also lovely, in either direction. Infidelity is also on the table, especially loveless marriages or guilt-stricken infidelity that they really must stop but just can’t help themselves.
There’s also the possibility that it’s not just their Secretary — maybe, by a twist of fate, her housekeeper/aunt/husband/whoever hired her childhood sweetheart or the man she used to love.
Or perhaps they start off locking heads but slowly come to understand each other!
(Or he catches her in a compromising position and takes full advantage of that fact.)
>>> Post-Apocalypse Survivor/Post-Apocalypse Survivor Who's Her Ex-wife (F/F)
Mmm glorious exes. I love all that juicy conflict, tension and shame. Have they not healed from their divorce, but now have to work together? Are they the only people that the other one can trust, as much as they are loathe to admit it? Does one of them have a special skill that is necessary to survival?
Or is that just the excuse they use to get close to each other again?
I especially like self-destructive or unhealthy dynamics, but where there is still love there, even if it’s broken. One of them being more hung up on the other is good too — if one of them got over it (or was never really into it), and the other didn’t, that is pretty delicious.
>>> Resort Guests/Complimentary Sex Slave
I don’t have an awful lot to say about this other than that I love the idea! Consensual or nonconsensual are both fine, as long as it adheres to my DNWs of no unaroused victims. Go wherever your imagination takes you on this one, I am here for it.
>>> Queen/Male General of Rival Nation She Marries to Prevent War
Enemies-to-lovers? Cold comfort that morphs into actual romance? Noncon and/or dub con? Obligatory, passionless sex that deadens them both inside? One of them being in love still with another person? Doing their duty for the love of their respective nations? Cultural differences that turn out to be a way for them to relate to each other? Hurt/comfort that makes them develop feelings?
I don’t know, I’m happy with anything here!
>>> Solo: Character who sacrificed their loved one to save the world - it worked
Mmmm yes. Are they wracked with guilt? Or is it bittersweet? Do they have survivor’s guilt? Do they desperately search for ways they could have done it without sacrificing their loved one so they can probably emotionally punish themselves? Is it a case of "you can’t go home again"? Or are there ways the character finds that honour their loved one and allow them some freedom? Or even ghosts!
>>> Woman Rescued After 2 Years On Island/Man From Another Country She Was Stranded With (F/M)
Woman Rescued After 2 Years On Island/Woman From Another Country She Was Stranded With (F/F)
Yesss codependency and trauma bonding! Do they pine from afar? Do they desperately find ways to connect? Can they adjust back to their life? Does one of them want to see the other desperately, while the other wants to forget all about the island? Anyway you want to go, I’d love to see it. Flashbacks are also welcome.
>>> Woman/The Only Other Survivor of Plane Crash On Island (F/F)
Woman/The Only Other Survivor of Plane Crash On Island (F/M)
Similar to the above, except on the island! Finding ways to work together, finding comfort in each other etc. Do they have a history? Perhaps they were enemies. Or maybe strangers. This seems rife for hurt/comfort or even light survival horror.
For the F/M, I’d also be up for brother/sister (or half-brother/half-sister), but I’d prefer no incest for the F/F.
>>> Young Woman of Noble Birth/Masked Lover
Identity porn! I’m happy for any gender of masked lover. Are they hot and cold? Or are they swoon-worthy? Is the young woman desperate to find out who her lover is, or, the opposite, adamant she doesn’t want to know for it would take the mystery away? Does something threaten their relationship, like the young woman getting betrothed?
And who is the masked lover? Enemies, friends who don’t know how else to confess, brothers or half-brothers, exes who wanted to reconcile, someone who is married but unhappy, the young woman’s mentor, a monster… whatever works for you. I’m also up for age gaps here, or if there are any reasons she/he/they does not want to reveal themselves is because they don’t think the woman would love them anymore.
Detective Grimoire
Where to Find:
- Detective Grimoire (2.5 hours approx.) is available via iOS, Android or Steam
- Tangle Tower (4 hours approx.) is available via Apple Arcade, Steam or Nintendo Switch
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I’m really fond of these games, especially Tangle Tower The art style is so pretty and I love a good conspiracy of rich people, plus impossible cases! Tangle Tower in particular felt like playing a Jonathan Creek episode, and as a big fan of those, it scratched a good itch.
I’ve requested Penelope/Sally for now, but other pairings for any of these characters welcome (inc. the canonical Penelope/Fitz). I’m not a huge Sally/Grimoire fan, however, sexual tension between themthat gets resolved by realising, when they try to do something about it, that they aren’t actually into it is always great fun.
Also, since mysteries are a bugger and a half to write, if you go in that direction, please feel free to steal plots from anywhere, including from canons I’ve requested before. I’m a serial rewatcher of shows like Agatha Christie’s Marple, Jonathan Creek and Columbo, so seeing the same mystery twice is never a problem. But! I’m also open to everything other than mysteries too. There’s a lot of dysfunction and relationships and peril to go around in these games.
More specific prompts can be found in my FFFX letter, or here in my Yuletide letter.
