Love You A Latte: Soulmates Exchange Letter

[sunsalute]

Hi there, thanks for making for me! Things I know I panic about and overthink: no preference for cis/trans, any terms to refer to genitalia are good by me, I love fic or art and don't care how long/short or detailed/minimal it is: I really am just happy to be involved. Mix and match my requested pairings, use freeforms from my other requests, or add as much as you like. This is just a more detailled list of what I like in case you prefer more guidance on exchange matches! Treats in any medium, even not exchange-typical such as icons or fanmixes, are welcomed.

General Likes

Settings

• Sci-fi - post apocalyptic, bio/solarpunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, kaiju/mecha, military sci-fi, any sci-fi/horror mashup
• Fantasy - high fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, historical (if you have actual historical knowledge and can teach me something as well that would be amazing), paranormal, magical realism, fairytale, superhero, cosy, new weird, gaslamp, fae (I LOVE fae worldbuilding)
• Horror - demonic, paranormal (curses and hauntings!), zombie, witchcraft, psychological, comedic, home invasion, torture, folk horror, haunted house, cosmic/eldritch, gothic, epistolary/found footage style, survival in the wilderness 
• Coffee shop where opening and closing shifts despise each other OR it is a money laundering scheme

Gender n' Junk

• Cis, trans, I don't care who has what so go and be free with your headcanons (but I prefer canon pronouns!)
• I will love m/m, m/f, f/f, nb/nb, and poly equally
• Any words are fine to use to describe genitals
• Every fictional character is a true switch to me. Strict top/bottom dom/sub who, as far as I'm concerned, everyone is just spaghetti noodling around doing whatever they want whenever they want so if you're writing NSFW, whichever way you write them will be amazing

Topics & Tags Of My Heart

• Character studies / blorbo gazing
• Kidnapping / captivity
• Most 'forced together' tags - hanahaki, x pollen, truth or dare, undercover mission
• Non-socialised character learning to be human (yet to figure out a tag for this)
• Gothic horror / gothic romance
• Processing past trauma in a safe place
• Processing past trauma in an unsafe place
• Character vs the role they think they hold
• Comedy of errors
• Touchstarved characters

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NSFW Likes

General NSFW Likes

• Kink exploration
• Important personal realisations being had right in the middle of kinky sex
• Character study/development through the lens of smut
• Unreasonable amounts of orgasms across the board
• Hands/mouth/toys treated as 'the fun' rather than a lead up to dick in hole
• Sex to chase away the Big Sads
• Overwhelmed or happy crying/dacryphilia
• Praise and body worship
• Lovingly consensual
• Dubiously consensual
• Nonconsensual but gentle
• Not safe, sane or consensual

BDSM Likes

• Bondage: ropes, chains, predicament bondage, honour bondage, stocks, hogtie, shibari, spreader bars, fucking machines, medical restraints
• Dominance and submission: edging, delay and denial, domestic discipline, impossible or humiliating orders, tickling, medical kink, forced pleasure, begging, nonsexual play, primal play, dom directs sub's gangbang
• Sadism and masochism: impact play (spanking, caning, flogging), hot wax, clamps, 'I love how pretty you suffer', overstim
• I love soft, RACK/SSC-abiding scenes within discussed limits, 24/7 D/S, and 'this is not safe sane or consensual'
• Dynamics: hard dom/bratty sub, pleasure dom/needy sub, experienced dom/new sub that's about to get their shit rocked, new but enthusiastic dom exploring/eager sub that can take whatever the dom wants to dish out, dom/sub reluctant to give up power even though they REALLY need a good subdrop
• Better mental health through BDSM

Darker Likes

• Dubcon where the victim secretly wanted it
• Dubcon where the victim didn't want it before but they do now
• Soft noncon where the victim enjoys themself
• x made them do it / fuck or die
• Weapons play (as a threat or to force obedience)
• Kidnapping/captivity
• Torture (gone wrong gone sexual)
• 'I have to torture you in front of my friends so I don't blow my cover while I'm undercover sorry sorry sorry'

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AU/Genre Likes

Sci-fi

• Mecha AUs - Pacific Rim (love makes giant robots punch!!), Evangelion AUs, scavenged part mechs in a dystopian world, help the mech I'm in is alive and has its own agenda, the only Gundam I've seen is Witch from Mercury but that
• Alien first contact
• Solarpunk (with bonus body horror)
• Space pirates/smugglers
• Drifting around in a spaceship until plot lands on them as a stowaway

Horror

• Ghost hunter/paranormal investigator/cult infiltrator (gone wrong gone sexual)
• Gothic horror (tortured heroes, dust-covered manors, blood-stained white nightgowns!!)
• Medical whump/torture porn/'take me instead'/'if you don't do it I will'
• Trapped together/captivity
• Based on a myth/retelling
• Creatures of the deep / creatures of the forest / creatures of the night - demon deals and possession, monstrous fae, eldritch infections
• Folk horror (rituals, isolation, stumbling into a witch/cult/creature's back garden and somehow being confused when they're mad about it)
• Surviving the night
• The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
• Time loops and the existential dread of reliving your own death over and over in different ways
• Haunting failures because the victims are better at this than the ghost / helping lost and confused ghosts
• Turned into a vampire / living blood bag for vampire
• Liminal spaces - deserted stretches of road, a swimming pool after closing time, a deserted shopping centre
• Having mixed feeling about the bloodthirsty entity on Blorbo's side
• Daylight horror
• Marriage of convenience turns extremely inconvenient (because spouse is evil)

BDSM AU

• Sub or dom suffering because they refuse to admit they need this
• 'and they were both subs (or doms)' finding a third
• Shyly asking a friend to help
• Finding a dom/sub through an agency but OOPS it's someone they know
• First time
• Experienced dom/sub couple showing a newer dom/sub couple what to do
• Sub goes through training to NOT submit to dom demands
• Accidentally discovering someone's dom/sub designation through an innocent joke
• Villain uses hero's dom/sub designation against them
• Introducing a switch designation
• BDSM to stave off violent/self-destructive urges

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Art Likes

• Minimalist colour schemes
• Dark jewel tones
• Suggestive rather than explicit
• I love both soft and simple backgrounds, and backgrounds being the focus of a piece!
• Comic/sketchy styles
• Fun with lighting
• Tarot themes
• If you'd be happy for me to use it as an icon or banner, please let me know!

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DNWs

If there's something here that isn't on the DNW list of the signup you matched me on, assume I chose not to include it on purpose, since I tend to just copy-paste my list! If in doubt, ignore this list and use only the text in the actual thing we matched on. Assume that mentions in passing/for background characters are fine unless otherwise specified!

SFW

• Focus on grief/mourning/terminal illness
• Focus on pregnancy/having kids (mentions fine)
• Cheating involving main characters
• Weed culture (other drugs or passing mentions of weed are fine; noncon drugging such as sex pollen or spiking is fine)
• Focus on alcohol
• Not a hard DNW, but skimming or glossing over non-vegan food (such as canonical favourite meals) is appreciated! Exceptions happily made for settings where animal products are necessary for survival. Feel free to kink on making humans into livestock/being treated like animals as long as no actual animals are harmed!

NSFW

• Copious amounts of cum (it exists and that's fine but if there's swallowing/playing with it/snowballing/excessive time spent on it, please gloss over the texture/smell/taste! Cum on someone's back/ass/whatever is fine, noting that it's in their hair/eye and played for laughs is great, coming inside and realising it's leaking out is fine, I just don't find it sexy on its own!)

Archive Warning

• Teeth or eye related body horror (everything else is fair game!)
• Underage (references or mentions in passing are fine if between consenting older teens or if child abuse is part of the plot/characterisation)
• Main character death (unless rectified quickly in a spooky supernatural kind of way!)

 

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Opt Ins / Common DNWs that I love (feel free to give me!)

• Dubcon/noncon/CNC
• Fun with narration, such as 2nd person POV or epistolary like chatfic (but please don't use exclusively text speak!)
• Torture
• Pet play
• Sounding
• Feet (clean)
• Character bashing a character that's a canonical child abuser in-universe (even if they feel sad about it)
• BDSM, dom/sub, impact play
• Whump
• Cannibalism (especially when the eater doesn't know, but the person feeding it to them does; or as a metaphor for codependent love)

Common DNWs that I'm neutral on (if you love it, convince me!)

• Omorashi (in a forced dom/sub context?)
• Knife/blood play (I've only ever used it in a Toga Himiko context but it doesn't disgust me)
• Tentacles (I tend to love interpersonal dynamics and conflicts which I imagine is harder to do with tentacles but I'm not against them)
• Emeto (Fictional depictions don't phase me)
• Micro/macro

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Fandom Specific Likes

Fire Emblem

• There is so much fun to be had with this setting. The horror of time loops / the fun of time loops / the fun of making out in a time loop while incorrectly assuming there will be no lasting consequences!! The lengths they go to for their beliefs! Fighting unwinnable fights because they have to! Body horror that comes from -waves vaguely at everything crest-related-! Taking a prisoner of war but oops they remember sitting next to them in history class!
• Sylvain: claims to be in love with everyone to hide that he thinks he's got a black hole where his heart should be. His unconfronted childhood trauma has made him kind, but nobody will see this until they're five years into a war and he's so sleepy he forgets to hide that he's a pretty decent guy, actually. Was fully prepared to let Miklan into the army for the good of the people even though the guy threw a young Sylvain down a well to drown because he thinks he deserved it, probably. World's politest misogynist. 
• Felix: is such a bitch so people won't realise he gets anxiety tummy aches about Dimitri's well-being. Saw his family's self-sacrificial deaths and decided it was a skill issue. Loves his mama. Is right about everything all the time but he's so unsocialised that not a single person listens to him (the effect of what unresolved deep-rooted grief does to a child who turns to aggression to hide that he's hurting). Mocks his teacher for turning up at the Goddess Tower, where he has been all night, waiting for them.

Slay The Princess

• The concept of 'you need to assist in the birth of a god' is AMAZING. And there are time loops? PERFECT 10/10 NO NOTES.
• The interactions with Princess changing based on choices you make born from preconceptions is BEAUTIFUL. She says herself that each perspective is still her, simply changed through the lens of how we view her, and even when she and the player take violent actions toward one another they're still able to sit and talk about how it's pretty much all out of fear. It feels impossible to have a favourite perspective because they're all her, and I love all of her equally (because I am a huge Princess/The Shifting Mound simp)
• The Narrator being a desperate, pompous little british man trying to cheat death is the absolute funniest way he could have been written. He's not even alive any more, but even as an echo he's so scared of the changed The Shifting Mound respresents that he's willing to completely dehumanise both her and you. A fascinating exploration. Also you know who else took on a devil role in order to prevent the birth of a god? Homura Akemi. I don't know what point I'm making here but it's a fundamentally sexy concept right
• A ramble about how I connect this game to experiences IRL, feel free to skip! (CW for therapy-speak from both a personal and professional perspective.) My entire playthough felt really visceral because of how much love has been put into making the game, but also how I relate to it. The whole concept of the princess' different parts felt really similar to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model which - and bear with me, I'm not fully qualified yet lmao - is about identifying and externalising stress and trauma responses to make it easier to treat them with compassion, with the goal being able to reintegrate them into the 'self' in a less harmful or disruptive way. While the circumstances are a bit different since she's starting from scratch, the idea of exploring and learning to love each part individually before making her whole felt really beautiful. (Also 'The Shifting Mound sending out trial personalities to gather info about How To Live' is very autistic coded right???)

Stardew Valley

• There are so many fun things to play with in the world of Stardew Valley - the small town, everyone-knows-everyone vibe, all the cool festivals, whatever the heck is going on in the mines. 
• Sebastian: huge nerd that would rather be right than nice (affectionate). Anxious king. Stands at the end of the pier in the rain like he's in an early 2000s teen movie and starts a frog sanctuary the moment he gets a chance and I think that's really sexy of him
• Shane: short king. Loves his chickens more than life itself. Making terrible decisions while drunk makes for GREAT fic fodder. Knows he's a huge fuckup but also knows he's doing his best to be better so he can be proud of himself. You know he runs chicken gridball tournements when no-one's looking.