lezridax

Hello writer!

I am working on setting up individual letters for each of my existing fandoms, but for now, know that you can find everything you need to know re: writing for me this year in my past letters for this exchange:

For Garashir, Kira/Winn, Kira/Damar and Disko (Dukat/Sisko), please consult my 2023 letter.
For all other ships, please consult my 2024 letter.

If there are any discrepancies, go with the signup! Or check out other letters within my DS9 tag.

Thanks so much for writing for me!

-SoT

Dear Yuletide author,

Thanks so much for writing for me! Sorry this took a while for me to update - it's been a very busy week for me! But here you finally are. I will go by fandom in the order they are listed in my sign-up.

Previous Yuletide letters:

2024

2023

Please use the 2024 letter, along with the sign-up, for general details about what I like and dislike. There are also some important feelings about how I feel about broader questions like dubcon (in terms of my rape/non-con DNW), my standards for historical accuracy with historical fandoms, and so on.

All but two of my fandoms from my sign-up are listed in one of those letters. Here are some additional details on characters that I did not include in the previous sign-ups -

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)

Nothing really to add here, everything that I put in my 2023 Yuletide letter for this fandom applies here as well!

Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers

Since I signed up for Wayfarers the previous time, I have also read books 2 and 4! I was really fascinated by Roveg in the fourth book - his complicated, fraught history as an exile from his homeland, and where he goes from the end of that book. While I would also love Rosemary/Sissix romance or smut, or general worldbuilding, I'm also very interested in what you do with him here! It could be romance, could be friendship, could be innovating new art as an exile, could be none of the above...but I want a general focus on him moving forward and finding a new niche for himself.

The Wire (TV 2002)

In this version of things, in addition to Omar and Mouzone, I also requested Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, wanting a story about them together if you choose them. Basically, I ship it and think more work exploring what would happen if there were a sexual/romantic tinge to their frenemies (or friends to enemies, rather) relationship would be fascinating. Have they been messing around since adolescence? Is it a more recent thing? How does the turn against each other affect that? Does it make that turn all the more bitter? What kind of feelings are there - is it purely sexual, is it one-sided romance? How is this complicated by the aggressive homophobia they clearly buy into? Go to town with all the messy possibilities! Absolutely does not have to have a happy ending (just like in canon, lol) - I want mess!!!

Also a clarification that in my sign-up, I said I didn't want canonical character deaths. That's mostly with regard to Omar's death, but I'm fine with exploring Stringer's so you can disregard that (if you're allowed to do that. If not, just explore it up to that point. I would prefer not to give him a different ending, though).

New fandoms!

The Gilded Age (TV 2022)

Canon is a 3-season period live-action TV series produced by HBO (and airing there in the USA), focusing on various characters - both wholly fictional and based on real people - living in the 1880s in New York City.

You can see my Just Married 2025 letter for details on what I want with this fandom. However, that sign-up largely focused on Larry/Marian and I also requested Peggy and Oscar, so here are some more details on what I'd like with them!

Peggy/Marian - I think this is an interesting, underappreciated ship, given how close they are to each other. What if, even while they advise and support each other in their relationships with men, they're also exploring their sexuality with each other? What do they make of that? What kinds of feelings are there, or are there not? How is the racial divide of 1880s New York complicating this relationship? What degree of awareness of what this is vs. deeply internalized homophobia comes into play here? Do they see it as "practice," "not real sex," etc. or something real, that nevertheless has to go by the wayside for their hetero relationships? (I don't really want an ending with this where they don't end up with their canon male love interests, as I like those too, but I think it's interesting as something going on at the same time as that. Or, alternately, maybe they get back together much later in life, widowed, or something like that.)

Peggy/Kirkland - I thought their relationship was really cute and their getting-together at the end of s3 was swoonily romantic. So just...go forward from there! Explore what their life looks like after this point, and how they deal with the reactions of everyone around them!

Oscar - I'd love to read about anything relating to his sexuality: how he figured it out, his first fumblings, maybe how he first discovered and got into a relationship with John Adams (though I find him kind of a dull character so I'd prefer not to dwell on him too much). Alternately, look at where he goes forward after John Adams' death - how he mourns even if he has to do privately, who he is able to talk with about this, does he get into a lavender marriage with Enid and does he share the truth of his sexuality and his past love with her? And who is the man who comes after? I'd love to see some romance between Oscar and some OCs, but also just some general Oscar character exploration.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Series - Mackenzi Lee

Canon is a 3-book historical fantasy novel series by Mackenzie Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, and The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks, each focusing on a different sibling in the Montague family (Henry "Monty," Felicity and Adrian). I have read all three.

My requested characters are Monty and his best friend/love interest Percy Newton, from the first book, who I'd like written about together; and Simmaa "Sim" Aldajah and Johanna Hoffmann, who are supporting characters in the second book, and where I'd like either Sim and Johanna together or Sim alone.

A lot of what I love so much about these books is the accurate exploration of queer, neurodivergent and other diverse ways of being in the context of 18th century Europe. The characters rarely feel to me like modern people inserted into that era - they feel like how people of that time who have these identities would be then. That's something I really appreciated and would like to explore further with these characters.

With Monty/Percy, basically I just want more of their love and romance - a continuation of where their life goes forward from the first book. We see bits of them in books two and three, but I'd love you to fill in the gaps, or even continue to let us watch Monty and Percy grow old together after book 3. What kind of life do they have together? How open are they (or can they be) about who they are to each other? What kind of relationship do they have going forward with Felicity, Adrian or anyone else? I'd love to see your answers to these questions - but most of all I'd like sweet, swoony love between them (and more smut is great too!)

With Sim, the idea of a lesbian North African Muslim pirate queen is just so intriguing and yet we only get small portions of this in the second and third books. I'd really love to see a story that focuses wholly on Sim, and especially on her relationships with women. We see her flirting with Felicity but being rebuffed since Felicity is aroace - but who does she actually have a chance with? I like the idea of her with Johanna, so if you bring Johanna into it I think that would be really cool to explore. But it would also be great to see her with an OC, or multiple OCs! I especially like a focus on cultural differences with her lovers, but you could also - similarly to Oscar above - do something exploring her earlier life and how she recognized she was into women, and her earliest relationships with girls.

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Thanks so much for writing for me and your patience while I completed this letter! I can't wait to see what you come up with in a couple months :)

Dear writer,

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.

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 IRL) | 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:

Amnesia/memory loss (okay with this for Utena, as long as the memories come back by the end) | AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly* (exception: a less-bigoted version of the canon is fine for historical fiction or historically-inspired fantasy like FE3H, but not modern AUs or otherwise moving them into a fundamentally different setting/time period. except with Faisal/Lawrence I'm fine with modern AUs!) | Lifestyle BDSM (okay with and in fact big into this with Faisal/Lawrence, so long as Faisal is the dom) | 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 it in any fandoms where it isn't prohibited in the signup, 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 | 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 say no 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). (For the purposes of this exchange, this section applies most to A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia and The Gilded Age. FE3H is set in its own medieval fantasy world that I don’t expect to be overly similar to the historical Middle Ages any more than the original game is, so go to town.)

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. Just keep in mind the marriage nature of this particular exchange when looking at these ideas/prompts:

Star Trek DS9: Star Trek Holidays 2023
Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married 2023 for all ships
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Yuletide 2023
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia: Yuletide 2023
The Gilded Age: This is my first time requesting this fandom! Go based on what my sign-up says, and know that my preferences are fairly similar to other period/historical fandoms other than that I'm not really into the AUs here. I want it set in the time period and setting of the show, and preferably fairly close to "canon." Caveat is that as of this writing, I don't yet know what season 3 has in store, so "close to canon" in the sense of "where the show is at at the end of season 2." But feel free to draw on the events of season 3 if you want! I'm sure I'll still love it so long as it still adheres to my DNWs from the sign-up. (And don't worry about spoilers: I'm a spoilerphile, and I'll also be watching this season week by week as it airs in the U.S.)

Dear writer

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.

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) | Daddy kink | Detailed violence/torture/gore | Explicit physical abuse | Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex IRL) | 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) | Amnesia/memory loss (okay with this for Sailor Moon or Utena, as long as the memories come back by the end) | 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 it in any fandoms where it isn't prohibited in the signup, 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 | 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 say no 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:

Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Purim Gifts 2024 for F/F ships, Just Married or Sakura Exchange 2023 for all ships
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu / Legend of Galactic Heroes: Yuletide 2023 (I requested somewhat different characters there, but should still give a good idea of what I like in terms of general tropes and dynamics)
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Yuletide 2023
Sailor Moon: This is my first time requesting this somehow? So I don't have a preexisting letter, though I'm working on these for other fandoms. The main thing here is to follow what I discuss in the signup prompt, and earlier in this letter for my general fandom preferences. I'm a big fan with these ships of soulmates/connections to their past lives in the Moon Kingdom. More specifically with particular ships: I love stuff with Haruka/Michiru about how they initially get together and discover their lesbian identities, and also am most into smut with this ship; with Ami/Rei and Minako/Rei I'm big into opposite-attracts stuff, and with Ami/Rei stuff set relatively early in season 1, soon after Rei is first awakened as a Senshi. With Kunzite/Zoisite, I would also love to see backstory - does their relationship date back to their time in the Moon Kingdom, and when they were Prince Endymion's friends before the Dark Kingdom recruited them? Whether or not you go that route, how did they get together, and what's caused their relationship to last? What do they love so much about each other? I overall prefer stuff to focus on the anime or the manga, but not Sailor Moon Crystal; and in Minako/Rei's case, I also like the live-action TV series' take on them.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Go based on what's in the letter. In terms of prompts, I'd really like both missing-scenes that explore a sexual or romantic relationship between Celliers and Yonoi, but also potential alternate, happier endings where they're able to be together. Also big on smut here, and angst! (but with a happy ending.) If you don't think you can make a happy ending happen here, I am fine with it happening mid-canon without where they eventually go from there specified.

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 | 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

Here is the solo letter for this fandom!

Canon is a two-season Amazon Prime series and a novel. I'm familiar with both of these, though it's been a while since I read the book - but overall, feel free to write them based on either canon.

Primarily interested in the following (canon!) ships:

Aziraphale/Crowley
Maggie/Nina
Beelzebub/Gabriel

Sometimes I only request one or the others for an exchange, though, so refer to that.

I'm much more interested in trans and non-binary headcanons here! (And of course, this doesn't apply to canonically non-binary characters like Beelzebub anyway,) This is especially true with the angels and demons, whom I figure have a pretty casual relationship to gender and other human identity categories to begin with, as they can shapeshift and all. That said, I still have two caveats with those:

Should not be a way to make a relationship F/M that is not canonically (other genderbends, e.g. changing M/M to F/F or M/NB, are fine!)
No PIV (penis-in-vagina) sex! Writing one person as having a vagina and the other a penis is fine, but please have them do different things in bed like oral, anal, manual, toys, etc.

Stuff I really like!

In smut: weird angel/demon genitalia if choosing one of those ships, playing around with their anatomy and their shapeshifting abilities - including making Crowley more lizardy
Fake dating, arranged marriages, marriage of convenience (as long as it becomes "real" by the end!)
Only One Bed! Can't get enough
Mpreg (that isn't Omegaverse or A/B/O, which I have as a firm DNW) - feel like you can have a lot of fun with angels and demons here, like a more lizardy Crowley laying an egg or something
Soulmate AUs, provided the main couple are actually soulmates in that universe (it's not a situation of "our universe-designated soulmates are other people but we're picking each other instead")
Playing around with the various historical periods that Aziraphale and Crowley have lived through
Focusing on Aziraphale's love of books and his bookstore
Focusing on characters' musical tastes (though I'm a music historian IRL so please make sure you fact-check any assertions you have them make that are supposed to be true)
Any of the ships listed above that you DON'T pick as background to the one you do. (For instance, if I only listed A/C in a request, having M/N and/or B/G as background ships is very appreciated!)
Fix-its of the end of s2 for A/C

Stuff I really don't like:

Anything specialized in the "general DNW" for the exchange that doesn't have an exception for this fandom
All-human or mundane AUs! I know this is in the general letter, but since this fandom has so much of that, just wanted to extra specify that this is not my cup of tea.
(similarly) UST that remains unresolved / pre-ship without any romantic resolution. I want any ships I request to be romantically and sexually interested in each other, to show that and to get together. For instance, even with my interest in the various historical periods they've lived through with A/C, if you're going to focus on that I would prefer you show them at least having sex or hooking-up, if not yet in a relationship.
Feminizing terms for male characters because they're the bottom, the pregnant one in an mpreg scenario, etc.

Under construction!

Currently still using the Star Trek Holidays letters for that fandom, but eventually want to put this together for all the DS9 ships I regularly request.

Dear creator,

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

General Preferences:

LIKES:

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

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

GENERAL DNWs, no exceptions:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional caveats:

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

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

Fandom-Specific Preferences:

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

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

Hello writer!

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

Ideas for additional ships not covered in the previous letter:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here's the solo fandom letter for this one!

Canon is a 26-episode fantasy-romance anime series from 2002-2003. I am not familiar with additional stuff like the manga, that one "sequel" fanfic, etc.

I am a longtime, huge fan of this anime, so I'm excited to finally request it for some exchanges! This should give you an idea of what I like here, but in general, this is a fandom where I'm pretty flexible. I generally like stuff that sticks close to canon here, as I think the canon of the anime is pretty much perfect, but there are some exceptions: if you can find a way to let Fakiru continue into the future, bring Ahiru back as a human so they can be together, etc. go ahead! I'm also good with both gen and shipping fic.

Ships I Like:

Fakir/Ahiru (Fakiru), Rue/Mytho (Ruetho), Ahiru/Rue (Ahirue), Fakir/Mytho, Autor/Fakir, Autor/Fakir/Mytho, Autor/Fakir/Ahiru, Autor/Rue, Autor/Rue/Mytho, Fakir/Ahiru/Rue/Mytho

But again, this isn't a fandom where I feel particularly strong about something NEEDING to be ship fic. If you're focused on Fakir and Ahiru, for instance, I'd prefer there be a shippy dynamic with them - and they're one of the big ones where I'd love to see continuations/fix-its - but overall I'm truly fine with both gen and shipping here.

Prompts:

As per above, where do these characters go after the ending and the "fairytale" is over?
With F/F and M/M ships, experimenting/messing around/grappling with gay feelings - the kind of stuff that us same-sex-attracted people get up to in boarding school stories
Feelings Realization!
Falling in love with people you never expect and the awkwardness that ensues - really fun to deal with in some of these, for instance, with Fakiru, Ahirue, etc.
How Autor's realization of feelings for Fakir, Rue, etc. shifts his attitudes about the story and Drosselmeyer
Turning duo ships poly in the case of the poly ones - how that happens! (Though please don't do "polyamory negotiations" in the kind of tedious rules-making kind of way. Just, what happens that makes these people want to be together as an OT3 or OT4 rather than a couple. What makes them realize those feelings!)
Fighting Drosselmeyer and "the story" to be in love
For gen fic about Drosselmeyer: who is he? what is his backstory? What made him become a writer and want to write such tragic things? How did he get this way? And how did he get these magic powers?

Fandom-Specific DNW:

Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings for main characters/ships
Sex other than in far-future fic with aged-up characters ("messing around," second-base type of stuff is fine with the characters during their "canon" ages)
All the "usually DNW" stuff from the main post applies here - except that if you can make it work, I think trans headcanons might be pretty interesting here?

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!

I am going to start putting some fandoms that have had evolving preferences in their own entries, which I will then link to in letters when I request them for a particular exchange. The first I'm going to do this with is Wayfarers, since my requests have been shifting a lot as I've been reading more books in the series - making it inconvenient to keep making people go back to some earlier letter where that wasn't the case, etc.

Canon is a sci-fi novel series by Becky Chambers, set in the same universe but largely stand-alone. There are four books: #1 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, #2 A Closed and Common Orbit, #3 Record of a Spaceborn Few and #4 The Galaxy and the Ground Within. As of this most recent edit (July 2024) I have read all of these books except for #3.

Rosemary/Sissix:

(Featured in book #1)

This is my OTP for the series, essentially; I just really love their relationship, which presses so many of my buttons as a yuri and alien lover, and I want more than their book gave us! I would love stuff that delves deeper into how they click, 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 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 ;)

Ashby/Pei:

(Featured in books #1 and #4)

A lot of similar preferences here to Rosemary/Sissix, with the additional caveat that I'm fascinated by how Pei got into such a relationship given the strong taboos against romantic/sexual relationships with aliens in Aeluon culture. I'd really love stuff that focuses on how they first get together, first begin to realize they care more about each other than they know what to do with, and how Pei navigates that relationship.

Similar stuff from Ashby's perspective, too! What are his initial feelings for Pei and how does he feel about being a dirty little secret in the beginning? When do his feelings start to change? What kinds of relationships has he had before and what makes him so willing to try this with Pei? What do each of his crewmates think about it and how does he feel about that? (Book #1 delves into that last question a little bit, but I'd love to see more!)

The bulleted stuff at the end with R/S also applies here: how you can incorporate Aeluon vs. human Exodan culture/history/etc., how those cultural differences play out in their relationship, the anatomical fun of human/alien sex ;) and how this impacts both their ships' futures and missions. In terms of anatomical/biological stuff, I'm particular curious about how the Aeluon lack of "hearing" (and the way their implants don't hear conventionally, but rather translate sound into something they can understand) affects their relationship - perhaps when exchanging cultural ideas? What does an Aeluon think of human music, for instance?

I also love post-book-4 stuff with these two as well, with Pei's decision at the end of the book suggesting she's willing to give up quite a lot of her cultural norms to be with Ashby. Does that move them into a more serious relationship going forward? Are they able to tell more people? What happens next? And what is the fallout of those choices?

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