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lezridaxHello mystery author! Here are some guidelines - to add on to what was in my sign-up - to give you a better idea of what I like in fanworks. I can't wait to see what you've created! I consider the “additional tags” to be prompts. I would like you to follow at least one of them, of course, but I hope this guide can also help you to get an even better idea of what I like in fic, and that it sparks your imagination!
I am okay with treats for all requested fandoms!
Both fanart treats and fanfic treats welcome! Please keep in mind my AO3 handle (SirenOfTitan) is different from my username here.
Contents:
1. General/All Fandoms
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
3. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
4. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (Legend of Galactic Heroes)
5. House of the Dragon (TV)
FIRE EMBLEM: THREE HOUSES
Ship Requested:
Ferdinand/Hubert (virgin Hubert)
I prefer happy endings with Ferdibert. I like stuff in the fandom that tends to delve deeper into the politics of the story, including how they run this world after they win (especially with the Crimson Flower route), but I get that's less likely to come up with prompts like these LOL. I think with these two, there's a lot of potential for either hatesex when they're earlier in their relationship that they're unexpectedly into/brings them closer, or for friends-to-lovers type of first-time sex if you set it post-timeskip. Lots of room for them to mess around without realizing how deep their feelings run. I love the idea of Ferdinand being surprised to find out that Hubert, with his imposing and worldly reputation, is less experienced in sex than he is - but I find that very plausible! I really like soulmate AUs with these two. I like the idea of a possibly arranged marriage (several different rationales you could go with), or with them losing their virginity to each other impulsively before going off to war, and there are so many interesting ways you can incorporate the worldbuilding and politics of Fódlan into this relationship!
My personal headcanons are that Hubert, Linhardt, Edelgard and Yuri are gay and everyone else is bi, but you don't have to stick to those if you'd prefer not to (and I'm generally not a huge fan of drawn-out musings on the particulars of someone's sexual identity anyway). Some ships I'm into in background include Dorothea/Edelgard, Caspar/Linhardt, Dorothea/Ingrid, Marianne/Hilda, Edelgard/F!Byleth, Dorothea/Petra, Dorothea/Manuela, Felix/Annie, Annie/Mercedes, Dimitri/Dedue, Yuri/M!Byleth, Dorothea/either Byleth, Dorothea/Mercedes, Mercedes/F!Byleth, Claude/M!Byleth, Caspar/Ashe, Constance/Hapi, Bernie/Raphael, Edelgard/Lysithea, any combo of Hilda/Leonie/Marianne... but honestly, there's not a lot for this fandom shipping-wise that I really dislike or anything.
Fandom-Specific DNWs:
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (TV)
Ship Requested:
Alicent/Rhaenyra (both virgins)
Pretty open here, but while I enjoy some angstier takes on Rhaenicent, I'm more into those later in the continuity and I think that with a virginity exchange, we're likely looking at teen best-friends experimenting for the first time. (That said, if you can make a later one work within the prompts, be my guest!) I'm open to both canon-verse here, or an AU that is more accepting of same-sex relationships/less misogynistic where they can be openly together or where marriage is a possibility. It's up to you! I think there's a lot of great room in canon-verse for them to fool around in a way they don't take seriously until real feelings ensue, or they realize what they feel for each other is more powerful than what they feel about potential male suitors. In an AU where marriage is a possibility between them, it would be interesting if they don't really consider it until the possibility of marriage (and thus loss of virginity) with a man they don't like looms over them. These are just ideas -- I'm eager to see what you make of this!
Two caveats regarding DNWs and this fandom:
Re: "rape/non-con" DNW: I'm aware that Alicent is canonically in a pretty clearly non-consensual relationship with King Viserys, and I don't want that prettied up into something where she's more into him than she really is. So if you go canon-complaint, the thing I would ask is that you not focus on the rape. Keep your focus on whatever relationship she has with Rhaenyra instead, not all the sex she clearly doesn't want with her husband. Same goes for any other canonically non-consensual ships within that fictional universe.
Re: cheating DNW: I'm ok with infidelity that is forced on them by society (e.g. they're forced to marry men because of their social positions), but not emotional infidelity, not stuff that suggests that Alicent and/or Rhaenyra have stronger romantic/sexual feelings for other people than they do for each other.
Fandom-Specific DNWs:
I am okay with treats for all requested fandoms!
Both fanart treats and fanfic treats welcome! Please keep in mind my AO3 handle (SirenOfTitan) is different from my username here.
Contents:
1. General/All Fandoms
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
3. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
4. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (Legend of Galactic Heroes)
5. House of the Dragon (TV)
GENERAL/ALL FANDOMS
General Likes:
- Kind of a gimme with a "first time" challenge, I suppose, but I'm a big fan anyway of stuff that focuses on relationship milestones: love confessions, getting-together, first kiss, obviously their first time having sex, first time sleeping over, telling friends, moving in together, marriage proposal and wedding, etc. (Does not necessarily have to be in that or any particular order.)
- I love a lot of the fandom cliches, particularly Only One Bed, fake dating turned real, and 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 — that stuff is great. Love it, can’t get enough, and I think this goes really well with "first time" as a prompt.
- Falling in love with someone you'd never expect.
- Outside character perspectives and reactions
- Introspection/character study
- Alien or fantasy cultures that are very different from any modern/historical human Earth cultures, as opposed to analogues for some real-world country or time period. (The exception is if they're already obvious analogues; for instance, I'm totally down with making Fódlan or Westerosi culture even more like medieval/early modern Europe.) I really like how sci-fi and fantasy give us the potential to go truly wild with exploring the diversity in cultural values, art, lifestyles, social mores, etc. and I love when fanfiction opens my mind further there in how it plays with the parts of worldbuilding that canon forgot! And even in a smutty exchange like this, I think there's a lot of room to have fun with how concepts like "sex" and "virginity" might look different across cultures and species.
- 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.
- With this challenge in particular, since "losing virginity" is a pretty nebulous concept, I'm fine with taking unusual approaches to it. First time with someone of a particular alien or fantasy species, first time doing a particular kind of sex, first time having sex with someone you love, etc. But I do love the emotions of it being significant that it's happening with this person, so please keep those in there!
General DNWs:
- ABO/Omegaverse of any kind
- Ace/aro/demisexual/demiromantic headcanons
- Amnesia/memory loss
- Animal death/abuse/harm
- Autistic or neurodivergent headcanons as main focus of the story (characters being neurodivergent but it's not the main theme is fine, so long as it doesn't violate series-specific DNWs)
- Bathroom kinks such as shit, piss, vomit, etc.
- 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, and it's a huge personal pet peeve for me when people assume that that must be going on if any other kind of child abuse is going on. But I'll spare you the rant....)
- Daddy kink
- Detailed violence/torture/gore
- Extreme underage (i.e. younger than the age when teens typically start having consensual sex. Use your best judgment here; my hard line is no preteens or younger.)
- Feederism or other weight-related kinks
- Focus on feminine grooming rituals (like doing each other’s hair or 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 (like where they are Dom and sub 24/7 rather than just in the bedroom)
- Men domming women
- Mpreg-specific: butt babies or surprise-uteruses. (Try to make it somewhat plausible to whatever fictional universe you’re in, e.g. unusual alien/monster biology, detachable artificial wombs, etc.)
- Negative/stigmatizing discussion of abortion
- Pre-relationship/UST that never resolves
- Pregnancy in a female character (unless in the background)
- Rape/non-con
- “Soulmate AUs” where the main couple are not actually soulmates
- Unrequested poly
- Using feminizing terms for male characters
DNW except where noted for specific fandoms:
- Abusive relationships
- Big power differentials among members of the main couple
- Cheating on the main couple
- Trans/non-binary headcanons in the main couple
- Whump/darkfic/HNC
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Ship Requested:
Bashir/Garak (virgin Garak)
I really really like Garashir, which is my OTP, and where I check the tag around daily for new fics. I don't usually tend to view either of them as true virgins, but I could see a version of things where Garak is one because he has been so focused on his life in the OO, and it would be fun to challenge Julian's idea of the spy life as full of glamorous honeypot sex. Alternately, I could see a situation where it's just a certain type of "virginity" for him: sex with Julian is Garak's first sex that is fully consensual (everything before having been a honeypot mission) or his first time with an alien, or at least with a human. I strongly prefer keeping things romantic and happy-ending-focused with Garashir (though some angst along the way is fine, so long as it’s resolved).
Fandom-Specific Likes:
- Alien biology that is different from human biology (especially with regard to cum/genitals), including making them "more alien" than in canon. This includes mpreg that follows said alien biology, so long as it doesn’t violate the DNWs. (In the case of these ships, yes I’m all for Cardassian males being able to get pregnant. You don’t have to go into a detailed biological explanation about how, unless you want to, of course; I could certainly see it as in-character for someone like Bashir to do that….)
- Alien cultural differences, especially in how they show affection, relationship and marital norms.
- Characters adjusting to living on their partner's different planet.
- Worldbuilding or political drama of alien cultures or future Earth, both in the macro and micro. History, religion or lack thereof, cultural stuff like music and art and literature, and especially, everyday life. Not so much that it is a distraction from the main relationship-focused plot, but I love little details that make these worlds feel lived-in. As per the "general likes" section, I prefer alien cultures being as "alien" as possible. I don't expect any of this to necessarily come up in a virginity-focused fic LOL, but just in case...
- I love Garak and Bashir’s book club. Feel free to write stuff that has them discuss books. I am up for whatever you choose to have them discuss as long it makes sense for two lit nerds to still be talking about 350 years from now (like don’t have them discussing YA or Fifty Shades or w/e lol) but if you want some specific ideas: I especially enjoy it when people have them reading books from Africa, Asia, Latin America or Eastern Europe. And of course, go to town with whatever you invent for Cardassian or other alien literature. Literary allusions that connect to the overall story or its themes are also great!
- If you have room for background ships, here are some that I enjoy seeing in the background: Damar/Kira, Jadzia/Kira, Jadzia/Lenara, Odo/Quark, Jadzia/Benjamin, Ezri/Lenara, Grilka/Quark, Natima Lang/Quark, Kira/Natima, Kira/Cretak, Miles/Keiko, Rom/Leeta, Jake/Ziyal, Benjamin/Kasidy. But anything that isn’t “DNW” works.
- Post-canon and "fix its"
- Sick fic (with either one being the sick one)
- Holosuite roleplaying
- Bottom Garak
- Julian and Jadzia as friends
Fandom-Specific DNWs:
- Any plot involving Kira having to “get over” her feelings about the Cardassian occupation (processing, sure, gaining a more nuanced understand of Cardassians or their culture, sure — I love that kind of stuff — but don’t suggest that what happened to her or Bajor wasn’t that bad, or that her initial feelings about Cardassians were unjustified, etc. Basically just don’t do apologetics for or downplay the Cardassian occupation.) She's not the focus, so I don't expect it to come up, but JIC
- AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly (e.g. canon divergence is fine, all-human or modern-day AUs are not. In terms of the "relationship" part, no age swaps, gender changes, etc.)
- Autistic headcanons for characters other than Bashir, Odo, Rom or Ezri
- Dom Garak
- Garak or Bashir in endgame relationships with people other than each other, even in background
- Kira in endgame F/M relationships other than Kira/Damar, even in background
- Misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, or socioeconomic class systems being part of non-Earth cultures unless they are in alpha canon (e.g. Ferengi misogyny). You can have their society have other prejudices, be creative! (Note: I'll be honest that the relevant examples of this I see most in fanfiction that bug me are: 1. Cardassia having a hierarchical socioeconomic class system, such as references to Garak being "service class," 2. Cardassia or Bajor having fundamentalist-Christian-style misogyny, hang-ups about abortion and birth control, etc. Please don't do either of those. Cardassia's science and medical fields are dominated by women! These alien cultures are oppressive but in different ways from Earth, and I find that a lot more interesting in sci-fi.)
- Non-canonical Major Character Death (MCD)
- Orientalist depictions of Bashir. (Basically: I would prefer not to have something that focuses heavily on his ethnic/cultural/religious heritage unless you’re very knowledgeable about whatever you choose – i.e. are from that culture yourself, or have a related academic background or something of that nature. If that’s the case, go ahead! I’ve just seen too many fics go really wrong with this, into Aladdin-esque territory, in a way that makes me feel a bit uneasy every time it comes up. I didn't put this in the DNWs on the challenge since it's not very enforceable and can also be misinterpreted, but wanted to talk about it here.)
- Racism/colonialism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, or (non-canonical) ableism still existing on 24th-century Earth
- Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings: including breakups, never-getting-together or UST
- Trans/non-binary headcanons for major characters other than Dax or Odo
- All the “DNWs except where noted” apply here.
FIRE EMBLEM: THREE HOUSES
Ship Requested:
Ferdinand/Hubert (virgin Hubert)
I prefer happy endings with Ferdibert. I like stuff in the fandom that tends to delve deeper into the politics of the story, including how they run this world after they win (especially with the Crimson Flower route), but I get that's less likely to come up with prompts like these LOL. I think with these two, there's a lot of potential for either hatesex when they're earlier in their relationship that they're unexpectedly into/brings them closer, or for friends-to-lovers type of first-time sex if you set it post-timeskip. Lots of room for them to mess around without realizing how deep their feelings run. I love the idea of Ferdinand being surprised to find out that Hubert, with his imposing and worldly reputation, is less experienced in sex than he is - but I find that very plausible! I really like soulmate AUs with these two. I like the idea of a possibly arranged marriage (several different rationales you could go with), or with them losing their virginity to each other impulsively before going off to war, and there are so many interesting ways you can incorporate the worldbuilding and politics of Fódlan into this relationship!
My personal headcanons are that Hubert, Linhardt, Edelgard and Yuri are gay and everyone else is bi, but you don't have to stick to those if you'd prefer not to (and I'm generally not a huge fan of drawn-out musings on the particulars of someone's sexual identity anyway). Some ships I'm into in background include Dorothea/Edelgard, Caspar/Linhardt, Dorothea/Ingrid, Marianne/Hilda, Edelgard/F!Byleth, Dorothea/Petra, Dorothea/Manuela, Felix/Annie, Annie/Mercedes, Dimitri/Dedue, Yuri/M!Byleth, Dorothea/either Byleth, Dorothea/Mercedes, Mercedes/F!Byleth, Claude/M!Byleth, Caspar/Ashe, Constance/Hapi, Bernie/Raphael, Edelgard/Lysithea, any combo of Hilda/Leonie/Marianne... but honestly, there's not a lot for this fandom shipping-wise that I really dislike or anything.
Fandom-Specific DNWs:
- Apologetics for monarchy/authoritarianism coming from the author, "message" of the story, etc. By which I mean, it's totally fine to have characters espouse monarchical or authoritarian beliefs, provided it makes sense for that character, but I don't want to get the sense that you the author expect me to agree with them that monarchs are so much better than democracy.
- AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly (for example: some plot divergence is fine, but no modern AUs, mundane AUs, etc. In terms of the "relationship" part, no age swaps, gender changes, etc.)
- Major Character Death
- Sad/ambiguous/unhappy endings including breakups, never-getting-together or UST
- Trans/non-binary headcanons in members of the main couple (fine in background characters)
- The "DNWs except where noted" all apply here
LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES
Ships Requested:
Kircheis/Reinhard (virgin Reinhard), Reinhard/Yang (virgin Reinhard or virgin Yang)
With ReinKir, big into them as childhood friends in love messing around, "practicing" for hetero marriages, and realizing that oops we caught feelings what do we do now? With Reinhard/Yang, more into the arranged marriage (but love, or at least affection, ensues) and the more experienced one making things really nice for the less experienced one being a part of how that bond between them grows.
You can go relatively canon-compliant in terms of the social mores of their world OR you can do a world that is more accepting of same-sex marriage. I could easily see a situation where whatever laws there might be against it in the Empire are lifted to allow for a Reinhard/Yang alliance marriage. You can also do various points along that scale: for instance, a society where same-sex marriage is legal but socially, opposite-sex marriages are still favored... but perhaps the potential of the young heroes of both the Empire and Alliance getting together is just too good to pass up, trumping even the desire for biological heirs....
Fandom-Specific DNW:
- Apologetics for monarchy/authoritarianism coming from the author, "message" of the story, etc. By which I mean, it's totally fine to have characters espouse monarchical or authoritarian beliefs, provided it makes sense for that character, but I don't want to get the sense that you the author expect me to agree with them that monarchs are so much better than democracy. (Yeah, I'm aware that's a lot of what the original work is...and well, it's something I find fascinating about it, but don't particularly like and therefore don't really want to see in a fanwork written for me.)
- AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly (for example: some plot divergence is fine, but no “modern AU/non-space AU” type stuff. In terms of the "relationship" part, no age swaps, gender changes, etc.)
- Major Character Death, including canonical character deaths
- Mpreg
- Trans/non-binary headcanons for members of the main ship (fine in background characters)
- Unhappy endings for main ship, including never getting together/UST, permanent break-up, etc.
- All DNWs "except where noted" apply here.
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (TV)
Ship Requested:
Alicent/Rhaenyra (both virgins)
Pretty open here, but while I enjoy some angstier takes on Rhaenicent, I'm more into those later in the continuity and I think that with a virginity exchange, we're likely looking at teen best-friends experimenting for the first time. (That said, if you can make a later one work within the prompts, be my guest!) I'm open to both canon-verse here, or an AU that is more accepting of same-sex relationships/less misogynistic where they can be openly together or where marriage is a possibility. It's up to you! I think there's a lot of great room in canon-verse for them to fool around in a way they don't take seriously until real feelings ensue, or they realize what they feel for each other is more powerful than what they feel about potential male suitors. In an AU where marriage is a possibility between them, it would be interesting if they don't really consider it until the possibility of marriage (and thus loss of virginity) with a man they don't like looms over them. These are just ideas -- I'm eager to see what you make of this!
Two caveats regarding DNWs and this fandom:
Re: "rape/non-con" DNW: I'm aware that Alicent is canonically in a pretty clearly non-consensual relationship with King Viserys, and I don't want that prettied up into something where she's more into him than she really is. So if you go canon-complaint, the thing I would ask is that you not focus on the rape. Keep your focus on whatever relationship she has with Rhaenyra instead, not all the sex she clearly doesn't want with her husband. Same goes for any other canonically non-consensual ships within that fictional universe.
Re: cheating DNW: I'm ok with infidelity that is forced on them by society (e.g. they're forced to marry men because of their social positions), but not emotional infidelity, not stuff that suggests that Alicent and/or Rhaenyra have stronger romantic/sexual feelings for other people than they do for each other.
Fandom-Specific DNWs:
- AUs that change the setting or central relationship significantly (for example: some plot divergence is fine, but no modern AUs, mundane AUs, etc. In terms of the "relationship" part, no age swaps, gender changes, etc.)
- Explicit physical abuse
- Major Character Death
- Trans/non-binary headcanons for characters in the main ship (fine in background characters)
- The "DNWs except where noted" apply except as per the above "cheating" caveat.
