Generic Exchange Letter
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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![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername on AO3.)
Do Not Wants
- 1st person POV
- bittersweet/bad/sad/tragic/melancholy ending
- loss of limbs, eye trauma nail trauma & teeth loss
- skinning/flaying
- gender changes & gender dysphoria
- betrayal of trust that doesn't get resolved (between endgame pairing)
- infidelity (between endgame pairing)
- underage non-con & unrequested underage ships
- vomit/watersports/scat & daddy/mommy kink
- incest1
- high school AU/coffee shops/wingfic AU
- hanahaki disease & sex pollen
1 Pseudo-incest is okay; things like step-siblings, adopted relationships, and the like. Rule of thumb: no blood relations and weren't raised as family. So for example non-blood related batfam pairings like Tim/Jason, Jason/Bruce etc. is okay!
General Dislikes & Pet Peeves
- forgiveness without accountability
- misunderstandings that don't get solved
- second-hand embarrassment
(NEW) Optional Prompts:
Collected by going through the freeform tags I've requested in various exchanges—more can be found here.
- Character's Attempts To Flirt Are So Bad They Are Constantly Mistaken For Murder Attempts
- Character's Attempts To Murder Are So Bad They Are Constantly Mistaken For Flirting
- Swapping Bodies with a Murderer Mid-Killing - Oh Yes!
- A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice
- Deal with a Devil
- Fake/Pretend Relationship
- Competence Kink - You're great at murder and that's hot
- Enemies to Lovers - Amnesiac Villain Brings Severely Hurt Hero Home to Take Care of Them
- Hurt/Comfort - Fully Expecting Hurt But Getting Comfort Instead
- Character has to fake being evil for reasons
- Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
- A kicks Bs ass in a fight so B promptly falls in love with A
- Accidental Marriage Proposal the other accepts to the surprise of everyone
- Amnesia - Affected Person Doesn't Remember the other is the Enemy
- Enemies to Lovers - Walking Into the Villain’s Den to Rescue Foe from Torture and Certain Death
- Injured Character has amnesia and only trusts character B
- Rescuing comfortee from mutual enemy and comforting them because only I am allowed to destroy you
- Stalking someone to protect them
- Enemies to Lovers - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go"
- Monster-On-A-Leash drops everything to protect the one they're strangely loyal to
- Bloody and bruised A goes right up to B and kisses them in public
- Undercover - Much To Their Distress Good Guy A Is Surprisingly Good At Pretending To Be Evil
- Mail-Order Spouse - Mistaken For Mail-Order Spouse and Goes With It
- Accidental Marriage - Captor Wasn't Aware of Marriage Hunt Rules
- Aliens - Strange and Elaborate Alien Courtship Rituals
- Fake Marriage - Amnesia Makes Characters (Erroneously) Assume They’re Married
- Fake Marriage - Amnesia Victim Does Not Remember That It's Fake
- Fake Marriage - Mistaken For Married While Undercover
- Science Fiction - Alien Cultural Differences Regarding Marriage/Engagement/Courtship
- Accidental Marriage - Marrying Significant Other’s Wrong Identity; Leads To Secret Identity Reveal
- Proposal - Love at First Sight; Proposes Immediately
- Time Travel - People Stuck In Time Loop Get Married And Then Time Loop Ends Unexpectedly
General Likes
In general, I like it when things are mutual. Characters mutually manipulating each other is good, mutual pining is good, mutual obsession, mutual protectiveness etc are all good. I like characters enjoying each other presence, knowing each other and supporting each other, and appreciating each other, even if the things they appreciate are superb murder skills, lol.
I like worldbuiling, character studies, crack treated seriously. Taking a silly concept and running it to the most serious conclusion. Logistical worldbuilding like laws, and transportation, and agriculture and production lines. Digging into the setting, so to speak.
I like monsters and aliens and unexpectedly sentient creatures. I like morally ambiguous/immoral characters in love, I like loyalty and devotion and characters sticking by each other. I like characters getting out of bad situations and choosing, perhaps, to *not* forgive somebody who's hurt them. I like characters moving on, and healing, and finding joy.
I like characters overcoming setbacks, and learning how to deal/live with setbacks they don't/can't overcome, i.e. chronic illness, permanent/long-term disability etc. I like characters making the best of things, in apocalyptic settings and so on. Sometimes things can't be fixed, and that's okay. (But also sometimes things *can* be fixed, and that's okay, too (i.e. fix-it fics, lol).
Likes: General
- domestic fluff
- misunderstandings
- what-ifs/canon-divergence
- hurt/comfort
- angst with a happy ending
- mutual pining
- mutual obsession
- mutual manipulation
- morally ambiguous characters
- characters being ride of die for each other
- feral behavior
- slow burn romance
- crack treated seriously
- protectiveness
- taking care of each other
- worldbuilding
- character study
- competence/competent characters
Likes: Tropes
- fake relationships
- accidental relationships/marriage
- didn't know they were dating
- time loops
- temporary amnesia
- arranged marriage
- marriage of convenience
- enemies to lovers
- undercover
Likes: AUs
- sci-fi & steampunk (aliens!, set in space, survival/horror (no bad endings), political shenanigans, adventure, other planets)
- gods & monsters
- supernatural/paranormal: werewolves, vampires, witches/wizards, etc.
- fantasy
- monster/human, demon/human, alien/human
- mob/mafia
- haunted house (falling in love with a ghost!)
- eldritch abominations in love
- post-apocalypse (no "humans fundamentally suck" and "everybody turns into a murderer in apocalypses" stuff): zombies, wasteland, road trip in a ruined world, etc.
Smut
I'm cool with anything from no smut, to fade to black, to extremely explicit smut. I don't particularly care about the sex itself; it's the emotions that do it for me. It can be super kinky, it can be super vanilla; I want pining, tension, enjoyment, love, etc. They don't have to be exclusively good feelings; trepidation, fear, desperation etc. are all good too, but if there's gonna be smut I want something beyond sex for the sake of sex.
In general, I like it when the characters enjoy the smut, too—whether that's reluctantly, enthusiastically, begrudgingly, didn't-think-they-would-but-is-actually-really-into-this etc. Dubcon is okay—to put a line to it, the dubcon shouldn't be completely unenjoyed by the one being dubconned, and they shouldn't like, feel gross afterwards. Undernegotiated kink is okay.
I like intimacy, emotional and physical, and I like characters wanting to make each other feel good. I like it when there's trust in the smut, and worldbuilding, and character studies.
I'm cool with asexual characters enjoying sex, or trying it out and figuring out they don't enjoy it, however the dice falls. I absolutely *do not* want acephobia in ace smut.
Gore & Violence
I'm okay with violence, but I don't want graphic depictions of gore. Blood is cool, have fun punching each other, sword fights, guns etc all good, but I don't want detailed descriptions of brain matter and guts; and also *no teeth stuff*. Like, it's okay for a character to get tortured but I don't want torture porn and I'm not interested in a steb-by-step description of the torture.
Relevant DNWs: teeth loss, nail & eye trauma, loss of limbs (this includes tongue) (it also includes partial limb loss).
Rating
All ratings are OK!
Content Warnings
If you've written me something you think needs content/trigger warnings, please put the warnings in the end notes/chapter end notes, of it at the front of a fic, please hide them via accordions.
When I know something will happen, whether it's murder or somebody stubbing their toe, it makes reading the fic infinitely harder, to the point where if I'm really emotionally attached to the characters I might not be able to read it at all :(
If you've abided by my DNWs I don't personally need content warnings for anything I'm aware of at the moment, so I prefer them to be opt-in, rather than instantly visible where I might accidentally read them before I realize that's what I'm reading.
- Accordions are HTML functions done like this:
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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
Do Not Wants
- 1st person POV
- bittersweet/bad/sad/tragic/melancholy ending
- loss of limbs, eye trauma nail trauma & teeth loss
- skinning/flaying
- gender changes & gender dysphoria
- betrayal of trust that doesn't get resolved (between endgame pairing)
- infidelity (between endgame pairing)
- underage non-con & unrequested underage ships
- vomit/watersports/scat & daddy/mommy kink
- incest1
- high school AU/coffee shops/wingfic AU
- hanahaki disease & sex pollen
1 Pseudo-incest is okay; things like step-siblings, adopted relationships, and the like. Rule of thumb: no blood relations and weren't raised as family. So for example non-blood related batfam pairings like Tim/Jason, Jason/Bruce etc. is okay!
General Dislikes & Pet Peeves
- forgiveness without accountability
- misunderstandings that don't get solved
- second-hand embarrassment
(NEW) Optional Prompts:
Collected by going through the freeform tags I've requested in various exchanges—more can be found here.
- Character's Attempts To Flirt Are So Bad They Are Constantly Mistaken For Murder Attempts
- Character's Attempts To Murder Are So Bad They Are Constantly Mistaken For Flirting
- Swapping Bodies with a Murderer Mid-Killing - Oh Yes!
- A's Love Language Is Killing B's Enemies And Dropping Them At B's Feet Like A Cat Gifting Dead Mice
- Deal with a Devil
- Fake/Pretend Relationship
- Competence Kink - You're great at murder and that's hot
- Enemies to Lovers - Amnesiac Villain Brings Severely Hurt Hero Home to Take Care of Them
- Hurt/Comfort - Fully Expecting Hurt But Getting Comfort Instead
- Character has to fake being evil for reasons
- Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
- A kicks Bs ass in a fight so B promptly falls in love with A
- Accidental Marriage Proposal the other accepts to the surprise of everyone
- Amnesia - Affected Person Doesn't Remember the other is the Enemy
- Enemies to Lovers - Walking Into the Villain’s Den to Rescue Foe from Torture and Certain Death
- Injured Character has amnesia and only trusts character B
- Rescuing comfortee from mutual enemy and comforting them because only I am allowed to destroy you
- Stalking someone to protect them
- Enemies to Lovers - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go"
- Monster-On-A-Leash drops everything to protect the one they're strangely loyal to
- Bloody and bruised A goes right up to B and kisses them in public
- Undercover - Much To Their Distress Good Guy A Is Surprisingly Good At Pretending To Be Evil
- Mail-Order Spouse - Mistaken For Mail-Order Spouse and Goes With It
- Accidental Marriage - Captor Wasn't Aware of Marriage Hunt Rules
- Aliens - Strange and Elaborate Alien Courtship Rituals
- Fake Marriage - Amnesia Makes Characters (Erroneously) Assume They’re Married
- Fake Marriage - Amnesia Victim Does Not Remember That It's Fake
- Fake Marriage - Mistaken For Married While Undercover
- Science Fiction - Alien Cultural Differences Regarding Marriage/Engagement/Courtship
- Accidental Marriage - Marrying Significant Other’s Wrong Identity; Leads To Secret Identity Reveal
- Proposal - Love at First Sight; Proposes Immediately
- Time Travel - People Stuck In Time Loop Get Married And Then Time Loop Ends Unexpectedly
General Likes
In general, I like it when things are mutual. Characters mutually manipulating each other is good, mutual pining is good, mutual obsession, mutual protectiveness etc are all good. I like characters enjoying each other presence, knowing each other and supporting each other, and appreciating each other, even if the things they appreciate are superb murder skills, lol.
I like worldbuiling, character studies, crack treated seriously. Taking a silly concept and running it to the most serious conclusion. Logistical worldbuilding like laws, and transportation, and agriculture and production lines. Digging into the setting, so to speak.
I like monsters and aliens and unexpectedly sentient creatures. I like morally ambiguous/immoral characters in love, I like loyalty and devotion and characters sticking by each other. I like characters getting out of bad situations and choosing, perhaps, to *not* forgive somebody who's hurt them. I like characters moving on, and healing, and finding joy.
I like characters overcoming setbacks, and learning how to deal/live with setbacks they don't/can't overcome, i.e. chronic illness, permanent/long-term disability etc. I like characters making the best of things, in apocalyptic settings and so on. Sometimes things can't be fixed, and that's okay. (But also sometimes things *can* be fixed, and that's okay, too (i.e. fix-it fics, lol).
Likes: General
- domestic fluff
- misunderstandings
- what-ifs/canon-divergence
- hurt/comfort
- angst with a happy ending
- mutual pining
- mutual obsession
- mutual manipulation
- morally ambiguous characters
- characters being ride of die for each other
- feral behavior
- slow burn romance
- crack treated seriously
- protectiveness
- taking care of each other
- worldbuilding
- character study
- competence/competent characters
Likes: Tropes
- fake relationships
- accidental relationships/marriage
- didn't know they were dating
- time loops
- temporary amnesia
- arranged marriage
- marriage of convenience
- enemies to lovers
- undercover
Likes: AUs
- sci-fi & steampunk (aliens!, set in space, survival/horror (no bad endings), political shenanigans, adventure, other planets)
- gods & monsters
- supernatural/paranormal: werewolves, vampires, witches/wizards, etc.
- fantasy
- monster/human, demon/human, alien/human
- mob/mafia
- haunted house (falling in love with a ghost!)
- eldritch abominations in love
- post-apocalypse (no "humans fundamentally suck" and "everybody turns into a murderer in apocalypses" stuff): zombies, wasteland, road trip in a ruined world, etc.
Smut
I'm cool with anything from no smut, to fade to black, to extremely explicit smut. I don't particularly care about the sex itself; it's the emotions that do it for me. It can be super kinky, it can be super vanilla; I want pining, tension, enjoyment, love, etc. They don't have to be exclusively good feelings; trepidation, fear, desperation etc. are all good too, but if there's gonna be smut I want something beyond sex for the sake of sex.
In general, I like it when the characters enjoy the smut, too—whether that's reluctantly, enthusiastically, begrudgingly, didn't-think-they-would-but-is-actually-really-into-this etc. Dubcon is okay—to put a line to it, the dubcon shouldn't be completely unenjoyed by the one being dubconned, and they shouldn't like, feel gross afterwards. Undernegotiated kink is okay.
I like intimacy, emotional and physical, and I like characters wanting to make each other feel good. I like it when there's trust in the smut, and worldbuilding, and character studies.
I'm cool with asexual characters enjoying sex, or trying it out and figuring out they don't enjoy it, however the dice falls. I absolutely *do not* want acephobia in ace smut.
Gore & Violence
I'm okay with violence, but I don't want graphic depictions of gore. Blood is cool, have fun punching each other, sword fights, guns etc all good, but I don't want detailed descriptions of brain matter and guts; and also *no teeth stuff*. Like, it's okay for a character to get tortured but I don't want torture porn and I'm not interested in a steb-by-step description of the torture.
Relevant DNWs: teeth loss, nail & eye trauma, loss of limbs (this includes tongue) (it also includes partial limb loss).
Rating
All ratings are OK!
Content Warnings
If you've written me something you think needs content/trigger warnings, please put the warnings in the end notes/chapter end notes, of it at the front of a fic, please hide them via accordions.
When I know something will happen, whether it's murder or somebody stubbing their toe, it makes reading the fic infinitely harder, to the point where if I'm really emotionally attached to the characters I might not be able to read it at all :(
If you've abided by my DNWs I don't personally need content warnings for anything I'm aware of at the moment, so I prefer them to be opt-in, rather than instantly visible where I might accidentally read them before I realize that's what I'm reading.
- Accordions are HTML functions done like this:
- It'll look like this: