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Dear creator,

Thanks for creating for me - whether you are my assigned writer or creating a treat, I really appreciate it and can't wait to see what you've made!

General Preferences:

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particular unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Amnesia/memory loss | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons (exception: I'm fine with ace and/or aro Yang in Legend of Galactic Heroes) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: fine with this in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, a version of the canon where bigotries around sexuality/gender exist less or don't exist is fine for Legend of Galactic Heroes) | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic (exception is Faisal/Lawrence in A Dangerous Man so long as you have Faisal as the one with more power) | Lifestyle BDSM (exception: A Dangerous Man again, totally fine with and in fact enjoy it with Faisal/Lawrence, again so long as Faisal is the dom and Lawrence the sub!) | PIV in smut (this is not really my personal preference ever, but I'm fine with it in requested het ships unless otherwise noted, and taking my other smut preferences into account) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (specifically headcanons, does not apply to canonically trans/non-binary characters) (exception: trans headcanons are fine with Princess Tutu)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms in ship fic, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could consent IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Fandom-Specific Preferences:

So I requested most of these last time, and my preferences are pretty similar this time around! So I encourage you to check out my Yuletide Letter 2023 to look at my more specific fandom preferences.

For the one that isn't included - Princess Tutu - I have a fandom-specific letter for that one. I also have one for the Wayfarers Series that I encourage you to check out if you're writing that one, especially as I've read more of the books since last year's Yuletide.

Hello writer!

Much of this is similar to my letter for 2023, so please consult that first here. All of my basic preferences, DNWs and so on are explained in detail there OR in the AO3 signup.

Ideas for additional ships not covered in the previous letter:

Curzon/Garak: Garak was on Romulus and Qo'nos at some point before canon; Curzon was an ambassador who traveled to those places. What if they overlapped, and what if they hooked up? What if this is part of why Jadzia and Garak seem to be a tad uneasy around each other / what if this is why Jadzia seems to disapprove or be skeptical of Julian's relationship with Garak?

Curzon/Julian: Obviously, a time-travel situation. Julian goes back in time, meets a younger Curzon Dax and they bang. What kind of dramatics ensure? How does this affect his relationship with Jadzia or Ezri when they get back? (No endgame Julian/Jadzia or Julian/Ezri please, as per the DNWs, so this is more "how would it affect their friendship/working relationship?")

Sisko/Jadzia: As I said in the sign-up, I'm a big fan of both a more traditional romantic treatment of this, or some more casual sex/hooking up. Can go with a mix of both too! But I'd rather it not be pure UST or pre-het/pre-romance - I would like it to be reciprocal. (Pining/UST can be great with this ship, but there's more than enough of it already.) Love exploring them hooking up and any complicated feelings that might ensure, based on their history, Jadzia now being Sisko's underling, etc. Especially if you also suggest there might have been something going on with Curzon and SIsko back in the day! Does this count as "reassociation"?

Curzon/Sisko: I'm just amazed there isn't more of this out there. As with previous, can be more casual or a romance. I love it being mixed in with some sort of mentorship relationship, where Curzon is both an authority figure or mentor and also someone that Sisko is hooking up with. I would prefer Sisko not be too young or naive here, though; I don't want it to take on too much of an air of Curzon taking advantage of him. More just having fun with Sisko getting to fuck that old man (whom he literally calls old man!) I also wrote a fic where the "Curzodo" situation in "Facets" lets them rekindle it a bit, and I love that idea.

Curzon/Cal/Sisko: similar sort of detail to above, but adding in Sisko's friend from The Lives of Dax to the mix!

Dax Symbiont/Sisko is anything where Sisko is with multiple Daxes over time, and would be a great place to do a soulmate AU or something of that nature.

Garak/Sisko: I firmly prefer this as a one-off thing during "In the Pale Moonlight," not as an ongoing endgame serious relationship, but it's really interesting to imagine the very strange relationship these two develop to each other bursting into sexual tension and then something more briefly. Could also work for me as a catalyst to help them explore their feelings for someone else. (Sisko as a "practice" human for Bashir for Garak, etc.) Or even just to make Dukat jealous, hahahaha

Julian/Goran'Agar: The tension, whatever kind you call it, between them can be cut with a knife. I don't really want this to be suggested to be true love or an ongoing forever thing, but it could be interesting to explore it as something where both of them wonder if it could be that way while feeling like they might never get off the planet during "Hippocratic Oath." Could be a great place to explore Julian's xenophilia, and how he likely feels about being probably the first humanoid to get it on with a Jem'Hadar (and also worldbuilding about what exactly they have down there) and if he wonders if he's taking advantage of Goran'Agar's sexual naivete, while Goran'Agar wonders if he's taking advantage of Julian being at his mercy. I'm interested in this either happening within the episode as it is, canon-compliant, or in an AU where Julian manages to cure them and/or get Goran'Agar off the planet. Though, again, I don't want it to be endgame.

Any combo of Winn with Kira, Keiko or Kasidy: This is firmly in "I love mess," toxic yuri territory, but there's a lot of different ways you could play these various women as butting heads. I think I elaborate enough on Kira in the previous letter... with Keiko, playing into their clashing over religion and Keiko's teaching; with Kasidy, them both trying to manipulate each other relative to their respective relationships with Sisko and/or the Maquis, but it turns into a real, uncomfortable attraction; etc.

Female Founder ships: anything here that plays on her attempt to curry favor with powerful women who hold essential positions in major Alpha Quadrant powers. Especially there's a lot of potential for mess and guilt with Winn, but Lwaxana with any other strong woman is just inherently fascinating (heh) to me!

Mila/Winn: I love this as pre-canon, running on the idea that Mila is an Order agent and Winn was part of the Bajoran resistance, perhaps, and it was a honeypot. Or even that Mila didn't know she was being used that way, in some respect, by Tain, or had moved on from him and found herself on Bajor for other reasons. Whatever you want to do here that works!

Kira/Mirror Kira: You know what this is about. Just wild, crazy hatesex. Alternately, this is one where I'm fine with one-sided pining from Mirror Kira to Prime Kira - but also, Prime Kira experiencing a strange attraction mixed with loathing for her counterpart, and wondering what would happen if she gave in. All the weirdness of fucking your clone, etc. One of them trying to manipulate the other, but then it's hot. I would like some action, but whether it's actually happening between them or all in one or the other's head is up to you.

Kira/Ziyal: Reciprocal or one-sided from Ziyal toward Kira are both good to me, but I definitely want a version of this that explores this dynamic being kind of messed-up no matter how you play it. Not something where Kira is outright being intentionally predatory, but where she's discomfited perhaps by feelings for his young woman who she had previously taken a more parental role toward, but still flattered. Fun if she still tries to keep her away from Garak over fear of what he intends, and ends up being a hypocrite. (That said, if you do go that route, please don't suggest that there was actual reciprocal Garak/Ziyal actions or interest, per the DNWs.)

Tobin/Iloja: I've written a multichapter epic about the idea that Tobin Dax and famed Cardassian poet Iloja of Prim actually hooked up, running from Jadzia bringing up that they knew each other during the episode with the Cardassian scientists. But I'm up for anything you can come up with here, including various readings of those characters. Go wild!

A note: With Julian and Garak ships, when I say I don't want anything where they're in an endgame that isn't Garashir, what I mean is to just not write anything that could preclude a future Garashir endgame. So don't have them get married to that other person, don't suggest they love them more etc. I think with all of those though, there are a lot of ways you can write it where that's just not an issue at all!

Thanks for writing for me! I'm super excited to see what you come up with! This is my first time participating in Trick or Treat Exchange, but I've done a lot of other exchanges before, as this Dreamwidth documents - so I have some good ideas of what I'm interested in with a lot of these fandoms!

Note: Please do not take the fact that there is much more detail for some fandoms than others to mean that I'd be less excited if you wrote one over another! I just have more exacting preferences with some fandoms, or more specific ideas/prompts for what I want, whereas with others I'm more flexible. If there isn't as much detail, that just means I'm more open to see what you can do! I'd be psyched to receive any of these!

I am open to treats in all requested fandoms!

Trick or Treat Preferences:

Generally speaking, I'm not a huge fan of outright darkfic or whump, especially where it involves a ship in question not getting together or being abusive or otherwise having a bad time (with some specific exceptions: see: Edelgard/Rhea from FE3H). However, I do like spooky themes, monster-oriented horror (like vampires and ghosts), and mysteries/thrillers. In terms of outright darker stuff, if you can find a way to incorporate that doesn't "darken" the central ship, even better! (Perhaps they're investigating some outside tragedy?)

Treats should be easier, as I've written extensively about what I like in terms of fluff, romance, happy stuff, etc. in my previous letters for each fandom. So check those out! If you can find a way to make it a "treat" and still keep a Halloween/spooky them to it, all the better!

General Preferences:

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particular unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Amnesia/memory loss | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | | Lifestyle BDSM | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons (exception: I'm fine with ace and/or aro Eloise in Bridgerton if she's not in the main ship, though you should not have her actually label herself that - see discussion of historical conceptions of sexuality in the Bridgerton fandom section) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: AUs in a version of the time period where certain bigotries/prejudices don't exist are fine with Bridgerton) | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic (exception is that you're free to fuck around with this in Edelgard/Rhea in FE3H) | PIV in smut (this is not really my personal preference ever, but I'm fine with it in requested het ships unless otherwise noted, and taking my other smut preferences into account) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (specifically headcanons, does not apply to canonically trans/non-binary characters) (exception: trans headcanons are fine with Princess Tutu)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms in ship fic, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could consent IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Fandom-Specific Preferences:

I've requested these before! So to get some idea of what I like, check out these previous letters, with caveats about the preferences that apply to those particular changes that don't apply here:

Bridgerton: First Time Exchange 2024
FE3H: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married or Sakura Exchange 2023 for all ships
Princess Tutu: Princess Tutu Exchange Preferences
Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023

Thanks for writing for me! This is my second time participating in the First Time Exchange; I had a great time last time with both the fic I wrote and the one I received, so I can't wait to see what you deliver this time around!

Note: Please do not take the fact that there is much more detail for some fandoms than others to mean that I'd be less excited if you wrote one over another! I just have more exacting preferences with some fandoms, or more specific ideas/prompts for what I want, whereas with others I'm more flexible. If there isn't as much detail, that just means I'm more open to see what you can do! (I've also requested some of these for previous exchanges and not others, so I have more of a history of detailed stuff to work from there, etc.) I'd be truly psyched to receive any of these!

I am open to treats in all requested fandoms!

ALL FANDOMS

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particular unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Amnesia/memory loss | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (specifically headcanons, does not apply to canonically trans/non-binary characters) | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons (exception: I'm fine with ace and/or aro Eloise in Bridgerton if she's not in the main ship, though you should not have her actually label herself that - see discussion of historical conceptions of sexuality in the Bridgerton fandom section) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: both modern AUs and AUs in a version of the time period where certain bigotries/prejudices don't exist are fine with A Dangerous Man, the latter is also okay for Bridgerton) | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic (exception is Faisal/Lawrence in A Dangerous Man, as long as it's Faisal with more power) | Lifestyle BDSM (exception: Faisal/Lawrence again) | PIV in smut (this is not really my personal preference ever, but I'm fine with it in requested het ships unless otherwise noted, and taking my other smut preferences into account)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms in ship fic, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could consent IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Historical accuracy: I'm someone who has a strong interest in history, including in the periods for historical fiction works here. I don't expect exacting historical accuracy, but please don't get basic and broad things wrong: some examples would be which countries existed, having people use overly modern slang, etc. My one caveat is anything involving music, as that is my own area of academic expertise. If you're going to incorporate something involving music history or music trivia please make sure you really and truly know it (as in, are not just relying on something you saw online or you remember your high school band teacher telling you) because it will truly take me out of the fic if people get things wrong there! Characters talking about music, playing it, going to concerts, etc. is fine, but if they are going to make a fact claim about it, fact-check it if it's intended to be accurate (obviously, if you intend the character to be wrong or unsure, that's fine). (Additional note: For the purposes of this exchange, this whole section mainly applies to A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia. With Bridgerton and A Song of Ice and Fire, since they're set in what are essentially AUs of Regency Britain and the Middle Ages, I'm more about them just being consistent with what those canons establish, and the characters not feeling overly "contemporary" in how they talk, their attitudes, etc. See the sections on those specific fandoms for more detail.)

FANDOM-SPECIFIC

I've requested most of these fandoms before! I recommend checking the tags for previous letters. Here are some I'd particularly recommend looking at, keeping in mind the nature of past exchanges with particular themes:

A Song of Ice and Fire: Purim Gifts for ships featuring female characters, Fandom 5K 2023 for all ships (though I've requested some that might not be included there, this should still give you some idea of what I generally like from this fandom)
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia: Yuletide 2023
Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023 - I also requested Garashir for the previous First Time Exchange
Wayfarers Series: Wayfarers Series Letter

If you're here for Bridgerton, though, here's its section!

I was so thrilled by the canonical queer Bridgertons in season 3! Haters to the left, you can all stop watching if you want, the show is for us :) So I've decided to focus my letter on those once and potentially future F/F and M/M ships.

I have also read all but two of the Bridgerton novels (Hyacinth's and Gregory's), but I would prefer that your story focus on the show canon in any places where the two conflict. I also have some specific things that happen in the books that the show hasn't yet covered that I do NOT want in my fic, even in the background - see that in the "DNW" section. Otherwise, though, stuff from book canon that does not conflict with show canon is fine (including from those two books; I know broadly what happens, who they each end up with, etc. so I'm fine with book spoilers as long it's not stuff where I'd have to have actually read those books for it to make sense. I don't expect this will be a problem since I didn't request any Hyacinth or Gregory ships, lol.)

I'm fine with Bridgerton's flagrant, campy historical inaccuracies, but I still would prefer that characters act somewhat like people from its version of Regency Britain. For instance, don't use speech that sounds overly out of place; and especially, please, don't have them talk about queer identities or sexuality in a way that sounds like someone from the 21st century - including likely using the word "queer" at all, affixing specific labels to themselves, or really understanding it as an "identity" in the first place rather than an action (that was something that only really came about beginning in the late 19th century at the earliest). That being said, I am cool with an AU where people are more accepting of what we now understand as non-cishet identities than they would've been in both the historical Regency and Bridgerton's version of it - not a modern AU, but a same-as-canon-except-less-homophobic AU: such as a situation where same-gender marriage is a possibility. (I really like the idea I saw on a Tumblr post, when talking about making queer arranged marriages in fantasy-historical settings, of having it be a way of marrying off "surplus" children in large families, similar to what joining the church was like in some other countries in reality - so, not a possibility for Anthony, but perhaps some of his younger siblings?)

With this being a virginity exchange, I like the idea of both exploring with some characters (such as male!Sophie, perhaps, or Eloise) them being fully inexperienced, while others might be experienced specifically in opposite-sex sex but not with the same sex. Basically, lots of room to play with the idea of virginity, as you see fit for the couple in question. With Lady Danbury's questionably-consensual relationship with her late husband, does she only see herself as truly losing her virginity when she has consensual sex after? If you read Francesca as lesbian (I am fine with either lesbian or bi readings for her), does she feel like she only loses her virginity with Michaela rather than with John, or does she view them as essentially two "separate" virginities? And so on and so forth.

Extra note if you pick Francesca/Michaela: When He Was Wicked is one of my favorites of the books, so if you're familiar with it, I'm really curious to see how you can adapt plot/characterization elements from that book to a lesbian relationship rather than a straight one. I can't wait to see where the show goes with that, so I'm eager to see your twist on it too!

BRIDGERTON-SPECIFIC DNW:

Contemporary approaches to sexuality/sexual identity that don't fit in with the show's version of the Regency (per above elaboration)
Eloise/Phillip, even in the background (just really hate that relationship, Eloise deserves so much better, and I especially can't see show!Eloise being at all interested)
Exclusively heterosexual Benedict, even in background (him being in a monogamous relationship with a woman is fine in the background, I mean exclusive in terms of his attraction/orientation)
Male Michael (instead of Michaela), even in background (I do like Michael in the books, but this is show canon, and I will not see their excellent decision to make Michaela a lesbian contradicted lol)
Unhappy endings for main ship
Woobification. I like these characters for their faults!

All the "usually DNW" apply to this fandom.

Dear writer,

Thank you so much for writing these for me! This is my first time doing this exchange, and I cannot wait to see what you come up with for me!

Note: Please do not take the fact that there is much more detail for some fandoms than others to mean that I'd be less excited if you wrote one over another! I just have more exacting preferences with some fandoms, or more specific ideas/prompts for what I want, whereas with others I'm more flexible. If there isn't as much detail, that just means I'm more open to see what you can do! (I've also requested some of these for previous exchanges and not others, so I have more of a history of detailed stuff to work from there, etc.) I'd be truly psyched to receive any of these!

I am open to treats in all requested fandoms!

ALL FANDOMS

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particular unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Lifestyle BDSM | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | PIV in smut | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Amnesia/memory loss (exception: Revolutionary Girl Utena) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: AUs in a version of the time period where certain bigotries/prejudices don't exist are fine with A Dangerous Man, and modern AUs are fine for both A Dangerous Man and Fire Emblem) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (exception: Revolutionary Girl Utena; also note that this does not apply to canonically-trans characters, this is specifically about headcanons)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms in ship fic, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could consent IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Historical accuracy: I'm someone who has a strong interest in history, including in the periods for historical fiction works here. I don't expect exacting historical accuracy, but please don't get basic and broad things wrong: some examples would be which countries existed, having people use overly modern slang, etc. My one caveat is anything involving music, as that is my own area of academic expertise. If you're going to incorporate something involving music history or music trivia please make sure you really and truly know it (as in, are not just relying on something you saw online or you remember your high school band teacher telling you) because it will truly take me out of the fic if people get things wrong there! Characters talking about music, playing it, going to concerts, etc. is fine, but if they are going to make a fact claim about it, fact-check it if it's intended to be accurate (obviously, if you intend the character to be wrong or unsure, that's fine).

FANDOM-SPECIFIC

I've requested all these fandoms before! I recommend checking the tags for previous letters. Here are some I'd particularly recommend looking at, keeping in mind the nature of past exchanges with particular themes:

Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023 - I requested a lot of these ships there!
Wayfarers Series: Purim Gifts 2024 and Yuletide 2023 - I'll also add with this that I've now also completed the second book and am about halfway through the fourth book, if that helps give an idea in terms of which characters I'm familiar with! (Though again, I don't mind spoilers, so long as it wouldn't be confusing if you haven't read book 3 at all.)
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia: Yuletide 2023
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu/LOGH: Yuletide 2023
FE3H: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married or Sakura Exchange 2023 for all ships
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Yuletide 2023 for all ships
Buffyverse: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F and F/M ships, Fandom 5K 2023 for all ships
The Wire: Yuletide 2023

Dear writer,

Thank you so much for writing these for me! This is my second Sakura Exchange. I loved what I got last time, and I cannot wait to see what you come up with for me this time around!

Note: Please do not take the fact that there is much more detail for some fandoms than others to mean that I'd be less excited if you wrote one over another! I just have more exacting preferences with some fandoms, or more specific ideas/prompts for what I want, whereas with others I'm more flexible. If there isn't as much detail, that just means I'm more open to see what you can do! (I've also requested some of these for previous exchanges and not others, so I have more of a history of detailed stuff to work from there, etc.) I'd be truly psyched to receive any of these!

I am open to treats in all requested fandoms!

ALL FANDOMS

LIKES:

This varies a bit by fandom, so please see those specific sections (for instance, there are some specific fandoms/ships where I prefer darker stuff, and most stuff below is relatively fluffy/lighthearted) but here are some general ideas of what sort of fic I enjoy.

I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers. Can never get enough of those.
I’m a big fan of reading about characters in a relationship growing as people together, discovering new sides to themselves, figuring out how to live or raise kids together, etc.
I like soulmate AUs a LOT so long as the characters still get some chance to develop feelings organically, whether or not they are already aware of their soulmate status. Stuff where they find out before they are in love and kind of fight it at first, but end up getting to know and falling for the person anyway — love it, can’t get enough.
Big into people falling in love with someone they'd never expect.
I really love outside character perspectives/reactions on a particular unexpected relationship.
If you have characters from different cultures, countries, worlds, planets, etc. I really really love stuff that explores cultural differences in relationship norms (regardless of the nature of the specific relationship, I love this between friends, colleagues, etc. too as well as lovers) and where characters share their cultures with each other.
Some things I really like for smut fic: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus or rimming. Strap-ons. Motorboating, nipple play (no clamps though), boobs/chest focus. Marking, including/especially scent-marking but also stuff like leaving scars. Femdom in F/M. Creative and weird uses of non-human biology in sex in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios.

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons | Animal death/abuse/harm | Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story | Bathroom kinks | Breathplay or other potentially life-threatening kink | Child sexual abuse, including in backstories (unless it is canonical. Note that a character having been abused as a child in some other way does not mean that "child sexual abuse" is canonical) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex) | Feederism or other weight-fetishization | Focus on feminine grooming rituals (such as doing each others' hair/makeup) in F/F | Genital mutilation (such as sounding) | Issuefic. Feel free to give your characters strong opinions and explore fraught issues, but the key word there is explore; I don't want to feel like I'm being lectured to or taught a lesson | Jewish or Muslim characters with uncircumcised penises | Lifestyle BDSM | Loss of intelligence/Flowers for Algernon plots | Making canonically LGBTQ+ characters cis/straight | Men domming women | Mpreg-specific: butt babies, surprise uteruses, or other stuff that's implausible to whatever fictional universe you're in | Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion | PIV in smut | Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves in romance/ship fic | Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background) | Rape/non-con | Sexual orientation headcanons that "contradict" their romantic and sexual relationships or "if it's you, it's okay" | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters | Women giving up their ambitions/careers/dreams for a relationship treated as romantic/desirable/ideal, especially in F/M

GENERAL DNWs, with specific exceptions for specific fandoms/characters:

Amnesia/memory loss (exception: Revolutionary Girl Utena) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: AUs in a version of the time period where certain bigotries/prejudices don't exist are fine with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and modern AUs are fine for Fire Emblem) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (exception: Revolutionary Girl Utena; also note that this does not apply to canonically-trans characters, this is specifically about headcanons)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction work, or moving a historical or futuristic work to the present day. It does not mean plot-divergence, or smaller worldbuilding changes (e.g. a soulmate AU) in an otherwise similar universe. You can use your best judgment on where to draw the line, obviously. "Central relationship" changes are stuff like changing people's ages, genders/sexes, species, etc. or "reversing" in-canon character dynamics (like giving characters each other's jobs or social roles).

Usually DNW, with broader exceptions for certain fandoms in ship fic, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters/pairings/that are non-canonical | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic | Cheating on main couple in ship fic | Major Character Death | Whump/dark fic (as stated in some of the fandom sections, I'm never really a fan of full-on "Hurt No Comfort," but I'm cool with and even prefer darker themes for some fandoms)

Additional caveats:

Consent: Characters do not have to give explicit verbal consent to be considered "consenting." Characters being drunk/high/stoned is fine as long as they're both clearly into it, and as long as they're not clearly way past the point where they could consent IRL (just use your best judgment here, I'm just really tired of fics where one beer is treated like a "dubcon" situation).

Dubcon: I do not want any outright non-con/rape, but I am fine with some degree of dubcon as long as it's a situation where the person would be interested in that other person if they were clear-headed (or whatever the case may be), where it's more of a catalyst to acting on real feelings, and also where whomever is not "dubconned" isn't intentionally taking advantage of the other party. I prefer mutual dubcon, and I especially enjoy the classic tropes like "sex pollen," pon-farr/fuck-or-die stuff with sci-fi and fantasy races, etc.

Historical accuracy: I'm someone who has a strong interest in history, including in World War II, the period for Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence here, and especially regarding Japan during WWII. I don't expect exacting historical accuracy, but please don't get basic and broad things wrong: some examples would be which countries existed, having people use overly modern slang, etc. My one caveat is anything involving music, as that is my own area of academic expertise. If you're going to incorporate something involving music history or music trivia please make sure you really and truly know it (as in, are not just relying on something you saw online or you remember your high school band teacher telling you) because it will truly take me out of the fic if people get things wrong there! Characters talking about music, playing it, going to concerts, etc. is fine, but if they are going to make a fact claim about it, fact-check it if it's intended to be accurate (obviously, if you intend the character to be wrong or unsure, that's fine).

FANDOM-SPECIFIC

For fandoms I've requested in the past, I recommend checking the tags for previous letters. Here are some I'd particularly recommend looking at, keeping in mind the nature of past exchanges with particular themes:

FE3H: First Time Exchange 2023 for Ferdibert, Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married or Sakura Exchange 2023 for all ships
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu/LOGH: Yuletide 2023
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Yuletide 2023 for all ships

Sections for Dungeon Meshi and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence are under construction!
Update 5/11: I can finally write these up since my semester ended; for now, go based on what's in my sign-up! With family this weekend so I'm doing this on Monday!

Dear creator: Yeah, I'm super sorry about this, my computer issues ended up lasting way longer than I thought and then my month was crazy busy with all the traveling and conferencing I had to do (on the academic job market and hustling hard), so this completely slipped my mind.

Hopefully you were able to get some idea from my other letters and from my sign-up on AO3 itself!

You can use the tags to navigate, but some places I'd particularly suggest going that are relatively recent for each are:

Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023
Wayfarers Series: Purim Gifts 2024 and Yuletide 2023 - I'll also add with this that I've now also completed the second book and am about halfway through the fourth book, if that helps give an idea in terms of which characters I'm familiar with! (Though again, I don't mind spoilers, so long as it wouldn't be confusing if you haven't read book 3 at all.)
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu/LOGH: Yuletide 2023
Cowboy Bebop: Purim Gifts 2024 and 90s TV Exchange 2023

If those conflict in any way with the AO3 sign-up, refer to what's in the AO3 sign-up.

Thanks so much, I really appreciate you writing for me - truly - and sorry that I've been too busy to think up new prompts or stuff! But everything you should need to create something lovely (which I'm sure you will do anyway) should be there in these other letters <3