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Dear spacer,

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 particularly 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.
Gen stuff: Character exploration, introspection, anything worldbuilding-centric about alien characters. Slices of everyday life on a ship or space station, or other planet. Per the stuff about cultural differences, I love delving deeper into the politics, religion, history, and especially the arts (music, theater, literature, visual art, whatever) of sci-fi and fantasy cultures!

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 | Big power differentials between members of the main couple in ship fic | 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 Yang in LOGH if he's not in a ship) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: a version of the canon where bigotries around sexuality/gender exist less or don't exist is fine for LOGH) | 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: fine with LOGH and AOS provided it isn't used to make same-gender combos F/M or to add in more PIV)

*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 or ships, 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 for previous exchanges, and my preferences are pretty similar this time around! Here are the letters for those:

Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu / Legend of Galactic Heroes: Yuletide 2023 - I requested slightly different characters/ships for this, but should still give you a general idea of what I like! I elaborate on some of the additional ones in the signup. (I'll probably eventually make this one its own page since I request it a lot)
Star Trek AOS: I haven't requested this before, so go based on the signup in terms of what I'm interested in and what I DNW.

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.

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 for this exchange! Please check out the tagged series for ideas of what to write for these fandoms; I've requested all of these before!

I'll focus this specifically on Garak/Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine since they're the ones where they might not easily fit the "enemies to lovers" ideas, as they're clearly "friends to lovers" in the show.

So here are some prompts that I think could be interesting! Though I'd love to see what you come up with:

AU where Julian gets found out as an augment and exiled while he's at Starfleet Academy or right after graduating, and finds himself on Cardassia, with Garak still there - possibly spying on him? I've seen this one done well before ("The Mark" by stuffedtiger) but would love to see your own twist on it
Time-travel, where Julian encounters a younger Garak who is still working for the OO (again, have seen this done well before, but would love to see your take on it too)
AU: Julian's there on Empok Nor and has to deal with a killer-drugged Garak - though I'd prefer not one who is actively trying to kill him, but maybe where Julian is the exception to his murder spree (the drug doesn't see him as "foreign") and Julian has to balance that and what that means with trying to stop Garak from killing his friends. Or alternately, the drug does try to urge Garak to kill him, and Garak is fighting it, and Julian is unsure about what he needs to do here - but it builds up to them getting together perhaps after they get back and Garak is cured - and maybe he has to deal with some angry feelings about getting together, in this moment, to someone who killed Starfleet officers?
AU where Garak does go back to Tain in "The Die is Cast" and tries to find some way to bring Julian along
Garashir getting together around the events of "Broken Link" and Julian trying to negotiate his feelings with what Garak tried to do. Or Julian actively tries to stop him in the moment but they also kiss...
What if Julian is much more distrusting of Cardassians at first than he was in canon? What if he has some personal reason for doing so (e.g. knew someone personally already who died in war against them, for instance? Or was really involved in pro-Bajoran activism in university or something)? How does this change the way they get together? (I keep meaning to do something with this myself; I really love stuff that examines what the non-Starfleet parts of the Federation's attitudes toward various aliens are, particularly Cardassians, and how others would feel about Julian's relationship with Garak through that lens.)

But so long as it doesn't violate my DNWs, I'm up for whatever you have in mind here!

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

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With each fandom, I'm going to list at the top what the media is, and where you can find it. For movies and TV shows, it will be legal options as they are available in the United States; I unfortunately don't know as much about how to find them in other countries.

Contents:

1. General DNWs
2. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)
3. Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
4. Wayfarers series - Becky Chambers
5. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of Galactic Heroes
6. Oniisama e... | Dear Brother
7. The Wire

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

ABO/Omegaverse of any kind | 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) | Detailed violence/torture/gore | 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 | 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 | “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates | Using feminizing terms for male characters

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

Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons (exception: Yang Wenli in Legend of Galactic Heroes) | Amnesia/memory loss (exception: Revolutionary Girl Utena) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: some AUs are fine with A Dangerous Man, please see details in that section) | Daddy kink (exception: Faisal/Lawrence in A Dangerous Man) | Lifestyle BDSM (exception: Faisal/Lawrence in A Dangerous Man) | Unrequested poly (exception: Rosemary/Sissix in Wayfarers with their canonically poly relationship) | Trans/non-binary headcanons for focus characters (exceptions: Revolutionary Girl Utena and Oniisama e...)

*Setting changes means like significant shifts in place/time or worldbuilding, like a sci-fi AU for a realistic fiction show, or moving a historical or futuristic show 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, please look at the specific fandom:

Abusive relationships between requested characters | 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)

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)

Requested: Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, T.E. Lawrence (must use all)

Canon is a made-for-television movie that aired on UK TV in the early 1990s, designed as a sequel to the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia film, but you do not need to watch that for this film to make sense. It's available in the U.S. on Amazon Prime.

I love this movie so much; both of the mains' performances are so beautiful and they do such a great job of building such a fascinating relationship between these two men that is intertwined with their diplomatic dreams and failures.

I'd really love a version of this where the subtext between the two of them becomes text! (It may as well be text, with some of the moments between them...) Write their private moments at night in-between meetings, write them kissing right after that final shot, write a way for them to be together? I'm fine with stuff that deviates from the historical reality of what happened to them if it allows for more romance. I'm also totally fine with if you want to get NSFW; Faisal/Lawrence are the one ship where I really like BDSM, including lifestyle BDSM.

Despite being really interested in the period, I'm open to AUs here, including modern AUs, AUs in a more accepting (less homophobic, for instance) version of the time period, even an AU where they somehow succeed at getting what Faisal wants from the Paris Peace Conference? (I continue to think that "what if the UK and France didn't continue to insist on colonialism but instead gave more of the non-Western nations what they wanted" is one of the best unrealized alternate-history scenarios, so if you can make that happen, go ahead.) While the big thing I want here is romance between the leads, I'm also super into the geopolitics of this story.

Specific Prompts:

What happens immediately after the camera stops (since it always seems to me like they're about to kiss there)
How could Faisal and Lawrence manage to be together as a couple after the events of the story?
AU where Faisal manages to win his fight for decolonization in some way, and Lawrence joins him there - exploring their relationship and the geopolitical implications of this change
Grappling with Lawrence's beliefs about politics and empire in the context of him being in a relationship with Faisal
"Missing scenes" of them being romantically affectionate/intimate during the events of the story
AU where the time period/historical events are otherwise the same except homophobia is less present and maybe same-sex marriage is even allowed: does this allow Faisal/Lawrence to be together or do they still encounter obstacles to their relationship because of the political situation? You could even have a situation where they do get married with Faisal as some sort of monarch, and how this complicates Lawrence's situation back in the UK
Modern AU that still preserves their dynamic to some degree (an example of one of these that I like is nerdypipsqueak's The Modern Royalty AU that Nobody Asked For)

Fandom-Specific DNWs:
Anything that tries to romanticize colonialism | De-aging | Dom/top Lawrence | Gender changes/Rule 63 | Historical inaccuracies that are not intentional (It doesn't have to be exacting detail, but don't get basic facts wrong like which countries existed, don't have them use overly-modern speech, etc. unless you're intentionally changing that aspect of the history/in an AU. I'm super interested in this particular time period, so it really takes me out of the story if it comes across like the author just doesn't know that history) | Lawrence being attracted to women | Major Character Death | Mpreg | Non-mundane AUs (e.g. sci-fi, fantasy, etc. AUs) | Orientalist depictions of Faisal and his culture (what I mean by this is just do not treat the Islamic World/Middle East as a cultural monolith, respect cultural sensitivities as best you can, I've read too many terrible fics involving Muslim characters where people are conflating, for instance, Arab and Persian culture in a way that is just distracting and offensive if you know the first thing about that part of the world!) | Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings
The "usually DNW" all apply here except for the "big power differentials" (as long as Faisal is the one with more power there).

Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena

Requested: Any nominated character(s)

Canon is a 39-episode anime television series that aired in Japan in 1997. It is currently available in the U.S. from Nozomi Entertainment's YouTube channel for free. (This may change over the course of this year's Yuletide as Nozomi Entertainment is in the process of being bought out by Crunchyroll; I'll update this entry if that is the case.) I strongly recommend watching the Japanese dub with English subtitles, rather than the English dub.

This is my favorite anime of all time, and I went for "any character" because I really, genuinely do love every character on this show. I'm very interested in a lot of the relationships that are both canon and implied. In terms of romantic or sexual ones, my favorites are Juri/Shiori, Touga/Saionji, Utena/Anthy, Miki/Touga (one-sided on Miki's part or reciprocal), Mikage/Mamiya, and any combination of Kozue/Nanami/Shiori. In terms of other kinds, Miki's relationship with his sister Kozue, Wakaba's friendship with Utena (which you can make more shippy if you want), and anything centered on Nanami, Juri, or Mikage.

I enjoy things that lean into the dark, messy nature of a lot of the relationships in the show. In fact, I would prefer not to have something overly fluffy, or if you want to go there, at least give me some smut 🙂 I am 100% ok with pure smut/PWP in this fandom.

I like explorations of anyone's sexuality, as long as it's not in a didactic way or one that focuses overmuch on specific labels. But stuff where they might have to deal with attraction they didn't anticipate, wonder what this means about them, how it relates to hang-ups they have about gender... great stuff and the sort of thing that Utena is all about, really!

I am familiar with the original anime series, the original manga, the Adolesence of Utena series and accompanying manga, and the After the Revolution "sequel" manga from a few years ago. I'm starting to read the light novels. I'd prefer a work based on the anime series, but if you want to include elements from those other works, that's cool too. I'm not familiar with any other Utena canons, but I'm fine with spoilers and so on so dropping in stuff from there is cool with me, so long as it doesn't require me to have read/watched/played/etc. the thing in order to understand it.

Specific Prompts:

Introspective/character study. I would really love this focused on ANY character, but if you do need some specific characters, my current personal favorites are Juri, Saionji, Mikage, Miki, Nanami, Wakaba and the two mains, Anthy and Utena.
Soulmate AUs that really lean into the messy, coercive nature of universe-assigned soulmates (with the caveat that the main couple still needs to be each other's soulmates per the rule of that universe, per the DNWs)
Any focus significantly on the Black Rose arc or the Black Rose duelists, as that is my favorite arc of the series
Saionji or Shiori grappling with being gay rather than bisexual (if you would rather write them as the latter that's fine, but I'd be realllllly interested in a more introspective fic that focuses on the former)
Juri dealing with the fact that the woman she's in love with is kind of a terrible person, and coming to terms with that - ideally with some messy smut thrown in
Juri/Shiori somehow making it work? But hopefully with some toxicity along the way - I looooove "toxic yuri" more than few other things in fanfiction
Touga/Saionji somehow making it work - ideally post-canon
Touga/Saionji having various messy false starts during canon, while slowing realizing that their feelings are for each other
One of my friends suggested a reading of Kozue as trans, especially based on the After the Revolution manga. I think that would be realllllly cool to explore in fanfiction, especially in how that influences her relationship with her brother.
I genuinely don't think that the Miki/Kozue is a case where they actually want to do incest with each other; I think those feelings are proxy for other stuff. If you'd like to explore what exactly those feelings mean and how they figure that out, and even if they make some mistakes about their attraction and feelings to each other and act on them along the way, be my guest. I would prefer it not be a case where Miki/Kozue incest is the endgame, but it as a stop along the way in their character journeys I find really interesting.
Nanami being queer in some way and how she figures that out

Fandom-Specific DNWs:
Any characters being portrayed as exclusively heterosexual | Explicit physical abuse. Emotional/mental abuse and manipulation OK | Fluff. Make it messy and/or smutty, please. | Juri being attracted to men | Mpreg | Non-canonical MCD | Unrelenting misery (darkfic is OK otherwise. I do enjoy these characters being awful people, but I'm not interested in a fic that's just "Character X Suffers") | Woobification. I like these characters for their faults!
None of the "usually DNW" apply here.

Wayfarers series - Becky Chambers

Requested: Rosemary Harper, Sissix Seskethet, Worldbuilding (must use all)

Canon is a sci-fi novel series by Becky Chambers, set in the same universe but largely stand-alone. The characters that I requested appear in the first book, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

This is my first time requesting this fandom for an exchange, but I really love the romantic relationship between Rosemary and Sissix! I would love stuff that delves deeper into that, including by incorporating worldbuilding involving Sissix's culture or other alien cultures. How does their relationship going forward from the first book fit in with Sissix's culture's norms about relationships? Where do they go from there?

If you go for smutty stuff (which I am A-OK with here), I love stuff that focuses on differences in alien biology from human biology, especially in exploring Sissix's reptilian body and all that entails.

I have read the first book. I haven't yet read the other books in the series, but I am planning to and I don't mind plot spoilers.

I love the exploration-focused sci-fi plots, so feel free to have the Wayfarer explore more strange new worlds with Rosemary, Sissix and their relationship as a central focus. I really love the worldbuilding in this series and would love fics that explore it further!

Specific Prompts:

Delving further into Aandrisk (or future human) culture, history, geography, art/media, etc.
Rosemary and Sissix exploring different cultural norms around relationships, relationship milestones, etc.
The Wayfarer goes on new adventures where Rosemary and Sissix are featured
How lesbian sex works between a human and a reptilian alien ;)

Fandom-Specific DNW:
Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings for requested characters
The "usually DNWs" all apply here.

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Requested: Reinhard von Lohengramm, Siegfried Kircheis, Yang Wenli, Hildegard von Mariendorf (if you use Kircheis, Reinhard must also appear; otherwise, writer's choice among these four characters)

Canon is a 1980s sci-fi novel series and two anime series, one from the 1980s-90s and one from the 2010s. I would prefer if you focus on the first anime series, which is available in its entirety in Japanese with English subtitles on HIDIVE.

My interest in this fandom is in a deeper exploration of their character arcs and how the politics and worldbuilding shape who they are, their ideals and ways of looking at the world, and their relationships with each other. I especially love stuff that further explores the queer subtext of this series. I'm a big fan of ReinKir (Reinhard von Lohengramm/Siegfried Kircheis) and in making that relationship more textual, but I love exploring the queerness of these other characters as well.

I also like fix-its where Reinhard or Yang lives, and possibly where Yang goes on to play a role in Reinhard's future rule over the galaxy (especially interesting if you go for a Reinhard/Yang relationship).

You can go relatively canon-compliant in terms of the social mores of their world (and maybe explore them further than the show canon does?) OR you can do a world that is more accepting of same-sex marriage, even in specific circumstances (like a Reinhard/Yang alliance marriage after the war).

I have some basic knowledge of German (and intermediate knowledge of Japanese) if that helps in terms of dialogue choices or names or whatever, though obviously (and also per the rules of the exchange) please write the fic in English.

Specific Prompts:

Reinhard/Kircheis: subtext becomes text - how they start hooking up
Reinhard/Kircheis: fix-it fic where Kircheis lives - how does their relationship affect Reinhard's political journey? can they ever be open about it?
Reinhard/Kircheis: Kircheis grappling about his feelings for Annerose vs. Reinhard and his sexuality, perhaps realizing what he thought was a crush on the sister was really a way to get closer to the brother
Reinhard/Yang: political/arranged marriage, rivals to lovers
Reinhard and Hildegard, or Yang and Frederica, as a lavender marriage
How Hildegard first gets interested in politics
Hildegard as a lesbian or otherwise interested in women
Yang introspective fic about his political journey, how he got interested in history, etc.
Yang AU where he gets to study history/go to the future's equivalent of grad school in some way or another (including possibly post-canon in a fix-it where he lives?)
Yang dealing with Julian having one-sided feelings for him
Yang-focused fic where he's had a romantic history with Dusty and/or Jessica Edwards
Yang fic that focuses on him being gay or asexual
Exploring what the specific societal mores are about sexuality/LGBTQIA+ identities in the Empire, the Alliance, or both
AUs where one or both are more accepting of alternate sexualities than they are in canon, or possibly, where a future Reinhard or Yang government helps that come about

Fandom-Specific DNWs:

Author (not characters) doing apologetics for monarch/authoritarianism, suggesting it's better than democracy, etc. | Mpreg | Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings for requested characters
The "usually DNW" apply here - and the MCD DNW includes canonical character deaths.

Oniisama e... | Dear Brother

Requested: Misonoo Nanako, Asaka Rei, Shinobu Mariko, Orihara Kaoru (must use either Nanako and Rei, OR Mariko and Kaoru; other two requested characters you can add in or not per writer's choice)

Canon is a manga from the 1970s by Ikeda Riyoko (of Rose of Versailles fame) and a 1990s anime adaptation directed by Dezaki Osamu. I would prefer a focus on the latter, which is available in its entirety in Japanese with English subtitles on RetroCrush.

The thing I'd really like for this fandom is to give these characters the sort of happy ending they didn't get in the original story - a version of the story where Nanako and Rei can be happily in love without Rei's death, or where Mariko and Kaoru have a real romance. Any sort of variation where it's a version of the story where the characters can be openly queer without being doomed to tragedy is great, but that's the one I'd most like to see!

Specific Prompts:

Fix-it fic where Rei lives, and looking at how Nanako and Rei's relationship develops from there
Fix-it where Rei lives, but she and Nanako do not stay together; however, Nanako remembers her fondly as her first lesbian relationship as she goes on to have other, more balanced relationships with women
Fix-it fic where Kaoru and Mariko get to be together
Anything that features Fukiko in a major supporting role
Rei/Nanako that features Tomoko in a major supporting role, including possibly as a love triangle?

Fandom-Specific DNW:
Woobification. I like these characters for their faults! | Writing any of these characters as straight | Writing any of them as ending up with men in this story (even if they did canonically)
The "usually DNWs" apply here with the exception of "big power differentials." The MCD DNW includes canonical character deaths.

The Wire

Requested: Omar Little, Brother Mouzone (must use all requested characters)

Canon is a 5-season drama/crime TV show that aired on HBO in the United States 2002-2008. It is available in its entirety on Max in the U.S.

I always thought there was a lot of subtext between these two, or that there could potentially be something between them. I'm really interested in a fic that explores that possibility. Alternately, a fic that involves the two of them in a significant way that goes into one of Omar's other romantic/sexual relationships with men/his sexuality. I appreciated what the show gave us there and that that wasn't all there was to his character, but it would've been cool to see more.

I'm very familiar with Baltimore, so I also love stuff that uses the location to great effect if you are familiar enough with it for your writing to be convincing to a local.

I'll be honest, I meant to also request Kima Greggs and Jimmy McNulty, so I'd be fine with them appearing as background characters in this somehow. I also enjoy stuff focusing on any of the tagset characters as possible. If you'd like to treat with a Greggs- or McNulty-centric fic (if that is allowed? this is my first time doing Yuletide), I'm cool with that, too.

Specific prompts:

Omar/Mouzone fall for each other while working together
Omar/Mouzone grappling with different beliefs about homosexuality, especially as per Mouzone's religious beliefs (or maybe he's fine with it?)
Omar/Mouzone wondering if the other person sees this as just a temporary thing to earn the other's trust (or maybe figuring out if they see it that way themselves or not)
Omar/Mouzone as Mouzone's first gay experience
Omar/Mouzone - fix-it fic where Omar lives, and they seek each other out post-canon

Fandom-Specific DNW:
Explicit physical abuse. Emotional/mental manipulation OK | Mpreg | Unrelenting misery (I'm fine with dark themes, given the nature of this show, but I don't want a fic that's nothing but the requested characters suffering) | Woobification. I like these characters for their faults! | Writing Omar as interested in women/not gay
The "usually DNWs" apply here with the exception of power differentials, abuse and dark fic. The MCD DNW includes canonical character deaths.

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Alright, on the off-chance you still haven't come up with an idea for it, I'm finally doing this! Thanks so much for your patience, my life has just eaten all my fic-related brainspace.

I won't rehash the DNWs, you saw that in the AO3 sign-up.

The main thing to know on top of what I wrote in the sign-up is that I am fine with the traditional romantic stuff for Ken/Stewy but prefer something messier for my other ships.

Some general things I like:

Fandom cliches: Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, friends to lovers (though here I'm only really into the straightforward romantic version of that with Ken/Stewy)
Sex pollen I can often take or leave, but I loooooove it with ships like this where I prefer things a bit messy and like the idea of characters giving into their worst instincts, the worst part of their id :) (and while I don't like full-on non-con, I'm fine with some dubcon)
Outside character perspectives/reactions
Introspection/character study
Soulmate AUs. I got a great one of these in an exchange recently for Romangerri, so would prefer it for a different ship if you go that route, but if you have a great idea for that there go ahead. With these ships, please make them demented and weird and uncomfortable! (That said, as spelled out in DNWs, I don't like the "main characters aren't actually soulmates" variation, so don't do that.)
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. Leaving scars and other marks. Men getting pegged.

Ship-By-Ship:

Tomgreg: My OG Succession ship! I love anything that just plays into the insane amount of subtext and chemistry between them and it reaching a boiling point. Anything that plays into how deranged Tom is about Greg. While I can see Greg returning his attractions, I have a hard time buying stuff that's too traditionally romantic for them, so please make it awkward as all-get-out. A good way to put it as I see these two as "soulmates (derogatory)." Like, yeah, they belong together, but it's a mess because they're a mess.
Romangerri: This is probably my favorite Succ ship along with Kenstewy. I love me an older woman/younger man pairing and it's just such a bad, bad idea but the chemistry is off the charts and Gerri deserves to have that messy younger man if she wants, and I love how much Roman is into her. And yet it's such a terrible idea. And yet it's so irresistible to watch unfold!
Kenstewy: I came out of the final shipping this HARD. Stewy seems to be the one person who truly cares for Kendall, and there's such a great room for friends messing around to lovers here, for Kendall realizing that Stewy is who he belongs with over time. This is the one pairing where I'm into something more traditionally romantic. Give me those cute friends-to-lovers tropes or that classic slowburn, though I'm also game for something silier, more humorous with them.
Naomi/Ken/Stewy: This is mostly that I really like Kendall with both Stewy and also Naomi - I love the two black sheep of warring political media families making terrible decisions together. I tend to prefer this as V-shaped with Kendall in the middle, but if all three are involved together that's also fine.
Gerri/Shiv: A situation where Gerri wants someone a little smarter than and whom she feels "gets her" more than Roman, or perhaps that just starts as a way to mess with him and then they realize they're really into it?

Specific Prompts By Ship

Tom/Greg: soulmate AU (derogatory), they're fucking behind the scenes the whole time, how the relationship evolves post-canon, Greg feeling conflicted about what he feels for Tom, Tom having some unrealistic romantic fantasy in his head that we know Greg isn't into
Romangerri: The hookups we didn't see on screen, Roman reconciling with her post-canon, Roman catching real feelings (and not liking that) but feeling convinced Gerri doesn't feel the same. Pegging is a big smut like here!
Kenstewy: Messing around in college (kissing guys on molly) and catching feelings but not knowing what to do with them, Kendall cheating on other partners with Stewy and grappling with his feelings, Stewy pining away and only at the end of the fic realizing Kendall returns his feelings, and all the classic friends-to-lovers stuff like first kiss, first time, romantic slow burns. Really into post-canon scenarios here as well! Stewy deserves a BJ for sticking by his friend :)
Naomikenstewy: Smut's the main idea I have here. Things getting complicated if Naomi realizes that Kendall is more into Stewy than her
Gerrishiv: Shiv as Gerri's rebound after Roman but Shiv being okay with that, one taking it more seriously than the other, messing with Roman turns into something more, Shiv having her first lesbian experience with a mature woman