lezridax

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!

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