lezridax

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 | 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 Eloise in Bridgerton if she's not in the main 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 Bridgerton) | 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 Good Omens provide it isn't used to make Aziraphale/Crowley F/M, and there is still no 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
• Bridgerton: First Time Exchange 2024
• Good Omens: Good Omens Exchange Letter
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married or Sakura Exchange 2023 for all ships
• Buffyverse: Fandom 5K 2023
• Revolutionary Girl Utena: Yuletide 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!