AU 5K 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

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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

Tactical Breach Wizards

• I adore, for lack of a better term, how 'millenial' this game feels. It's meta, it's irreverant, and yet it still cares so deeply about everything. The characters are all given such care and exploration, and the characters themselves are all people pretending they don't care about the fate of several countries while actively risking themselves to bring about peace. I also love that you can turn military-grade turrets off by holding the status button and tapping reset three times.
• Dessa Banks: I fell in love with her in the game trailer showing her mechanics, and then again in-game seeing all her conversations and realising she's an absolute killjoy dour pessimist. And then I love how un-grumpy she looks when you get her talking about etymology or medicine because she's a massive nerd, and how she has all this terrifying necromedic power and can't help but use it to actually help people. That said, she's a huge gremlin and absolutely spent too much time on the internet in med school, I just know it. And she's practical! I saw the screen where she's eating with her surgery scalpel.
• Zan Vesker: if I were reduced to only have one per media, Zan is my one autistic headcanon pick. He listens to his Ma. He loves little model vehicles. He spent so long agonising over what happened with Liv in the first mission of the game that it informs everything he does later, and I genuinely can't tell if it's just a mentor-trainee relationship with a lot of guilt or if there was a toxic co-dependency going on - either way, it's delicious watching him try to figure out who is is without her. Especially when he's on the only one that stands a chance of beating her. 
• Jen Kellen: I love that Darrell has the trans-inclusive pride sticker on his carry case. Her anxiety dream about her sense of self and struggles holding onto validation and lack of direction really resonated with me, and I just know she gets anxiety tummy aches when she has to phone the vet to book Darrell in. And that doesn't stop her being an optimistic lunatic willing to try absolutely everything for the smallest chance of doing something good! She's so patient and empathetic unless you're Steve fucking Clark!!
• Rion: his backstory reveal hit me so hard I had to exit the game for a bit and think about life. His godawful British dialect is hilariously charming. His general disdain for his ball-licker mode tickles me despite everything, because he absolutely seems to also resent being a human. I'm sure his belief that cruelty and hate are inherant to humans doesn't need therapy or anything... love that he lives by doggy morals though.
• Dall Sabin: Hers are the only levels I skipped in the game because hearing her talk about Jida was too sad for me :( I love watching her journey channeling that grief into action, and her thoughts on her religion are beautiful. I also love her completely correct takes on olives.

Invisible Inc

• Since we're fig-leafing this exchange, here's an extra list of freeform AUs I would also be estatic to see in this exchange
• Ancient Greece/Rome
• Apocalypse
• Arranged marriage
• Artist/model
• BDSM
• Bodyguard AU (is it really an AU if it's Nika though)
• Bodyswap
• Casefic 
• Cat rescue
• Cats (the musical) (because Olivia deserves to sing Memories tbh)
• Canon death averted (if we assume the archive-only characters have no on-file for a reason...)
• Character is dehumanised human weapon (aka the winter soldier AU)
• Character working as a professional dom/me in their spare time
• Characters pretend to be a couple/married so often they catch feelings
• Coffee shop
• Coffee shop is actually a mafia front
• Ecologists
• Fire Emblem Three Houses
• Ghost hunter
• Gods/goddesses
• Heist 
• Heist but fantasy setting
• Honeypot
• Horror
• Horror with erotic themes
• Hunger Games Victor
• Lighthouse keeper
• Mall workers
• Marriage of convenience
• Mecha
• Merpeople
• Mockumentary
• Pacific Rim
• Paramornal investigators
• Pokemon
• Political marriage
• possessed by time-travelling future self
• post-apocalypse
• post-apocalypse homeowners association
• pro wrestling
• Sci-fi horror
• SCP foundation fusion
• Sex pollen
• Solarpunk 
• The Thing fusion