Candy Hearts Ex 2024

[quillpunk]

Hello!

My tastes run varied and wild; I like domestic fluff and some crack treated seriously just as much as I do angsty fics that tear my heart out (provided they heal it again, LOL); I'm just as much up for dark romance (as long as it adheres to my DNWs) as I am a fluffy lighthearted, heartwarming romance; terrible characters doing terrible things and also being in love (with potentially less terrible people?) is fun, good people willing to commit murder when their lines are crossed is fun, a cozy walk under the starlight is fun! A lot of things is fun!

(If you wanna check out what kind of stuff I've written/bookmarked, I'm TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername on AO3.)

All my requests for candyheartsex has been compiled into this neat list and reproduced in their entirety for the sake of posterity ~~and also for easy perusing, since I'm not clear how the magic AO3 app works and this is just easier for me, LOL!~~ XD (The bits between ~~ should have been rendered as a strikethrough 🧐)

Below is a list of general likes and dislikes.

do not wants

• bittersweet/bad/sad/tragic/melancholy ending
• loss of limbs
• eye trauma
• teeth loss
• gender changes & gender dysphoria
• betrayal of trust
• infidelity
• underage non-con
• 1st person POV

dislikes

• forgiveness without accountability
• misunderstandings that don't get solved

likes

• domestic fluff
  • I'm a sucker for soft moments of devotion, those kind of unspoken ways the characters can convey how good they actually know each other and how comfortable they are in their relationship.
• misunderstandings (cracky, angsty. fluffy...)
• trope: fake relationships
  • you can get so much fluff and/or angst out of that and when it hits right it hits right
• trope: accidental relationships/marriage/didn't know they were dating
• fantasy/sci-fi AUs
  • I adore SFF and good worldbuilding! Steampunk, gaslamp fantasy, space operas etc are much loved :)
  • Alien/Human!
  • Monster Romance!
  • Demons! (deal with a devil!)
• mutual pining
• characters being ride of die for each other
• mutual obsession
• mutual manipulation
  • They're both aware they're manipulating each other but it's kind of hot?
• hurt/comfort
• morally ambiguous characters (and outright amoral characters who like, will play along with a more moral (not necessarily great morals either, though, lol) character's morals just becuase they like the character)
• angst with a happy ending
  • but it can't just be kiss and make up, there have to actually be a happy/hopeful ending
  • it's fine if you break my heart as long as you heal it again XD
  • like seriously, you can break it
• feral behavior
• AU: post-apocalypse
  • making the best of things
  • no "humans fundamentally suck" and "everybody turns into a murderer in apocalypses" stuff
• some fun AUs: bake off, bachelor(ette), pretty woman (the movie)
• trope: temporary amnesia
  • related: mutual amnesia! mutual pining + mutual amnesia = assuming they're in love and rolling with it, LOL. can be angsty (they figure out/regain memories they're not actually together but hell if they're gonna let go now (which could easily segway into some mutual manipulation 👀) it can be fluffy, crack treated seriously... the list goes on, LOL.
• time loops
  • in the POV of the person not looping?
• trope: arranged marriage
  • reluctantly growing to like each other
  • married for the benefits, keep pretending they are still in dire need of the benefits to push off divorce because they're pining~
• horror AUs: haunted house (falling in love with a ghost!), eldritch abominations
• slow burn romance
• crack treated seriously