Original 5k Letter 2021

[withinadream]

Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I am very excited for this exchange. I have some genre preferences in my likes, but go wild with where you want to set things. I’m not a huge fan of sci-fi set in space (as opposed to on a planet), and I don’t want modern settings (aside from where specifically requested) but other than that I enjoy everything. Please feel free to go as deep as you want into worldbuilding, or to dump us right into the action and not worldbuild at all, or anything in between. You’re welcome to make any characters trans, or go for any sexualities, any disabilities, etc.

I’m dividing my requests into “both smut and no-smut” and “smut only”. For the ships in the former category, I really am happy with either!

For tags with historical eras in them (e.g. Victorian, Regency), don’t feel bound to writing historically-accurate fic about those eras. A general vibe (balls, sexual repression) in any setting (fantasy, historical fantasy, straight historical) is great! Historical fics set in “no-homophobia/no-sexism AUs” of the modern world are also always welcome!

DNWs

• Pregnancy, childbirth - mentions of pregnancy are fine, but I don’t want art showing visibly pregnant characters or fics going into detail about pregnancy, related medical concerns, h/c related to pregnancy, etc. Past mpreg is also fine.


• Trans characters having PIV sex - other types of vaginal penetration or uses of dicks are fine!


• Prepubescent characters in sex scenes - no need to specify age, just don’t emphasize how physically undeveloped or underdeveloped a character is. Discussion of offscreen CSA or sexual contact is fine!


• Noncon between requested ships - onscreen, offscreen, backstory noncon between other characters is very welcome!


• Kinks I DNW - Oviposition, breeding kink, stuffing/feederism, removal of penis or clitoris (removal of testicles is fine), quadruple amputation/fuckpotato


• Unrequested modern settings

General Likes

• I love all tenses and POVs!


• Fave genres: fantasy, historical (any era is great!), horror


• Fic about the characters’ child/ren, Accidental Child Acquisition, adoption


• Casefic, with a loose definition of "case" that encompasses mysteries, paranormal investigations, espionage, etc


• Ghost stories! Particular favorites include the "ghostly hitchhiker" urban legend and the setup where characters need to spend the night in a haunted house for Reasons


• Recovery or aftermath – of torture, rape, abuse, injury, murder attempts, etc. The thing they’re recovering from can be ‘on-screen’ in the fic or not, whichever direction your muse takes you!


• Whump, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort


• 5+1 fics


• Internal or external homophobia

Art Likes

• I love any art styles and media!


• Ships sharing each other’s clothes


• Disheveled characters (whether from fights or sex or anything else)


• Clothing/costume porn


• Clothed/unclothed, or discrepancies in level of dress, for shippy art


• Limited color palettes


• Blood, bruises, marks

Smut Likes

• Feel free to include any of your favorite kinks if you are writing or drawing me smut! My only squicks are in my DNWs – anything else goes


• Any and all sex acts (vaginal, anal, oral, manual, frottage, intercrural, fisting, double penetration, sounding, etc) are great! I have no top/bottom or dom/sub preferences.


• My favorite words for genitals are cock and cunt, but I have no objections to whatever you’d like to use. I’ve also got no specific preferences for what trans characters call their genitals in-narrative, so go with whatever you prefer.


• Pretty much anything under the BDSM umbrella. I am especially into unnegotiated or undernegotiated kink, and characters falling into kinky dynamics or things they enjoy. I have no dom/sub preferences


• Roleplay – I am into both serious roleplay and goofy scenarios that the characters can’t quite take seriously, and I am especially fond of rape roleplay/consensual non-consent


• Group sex, orgies, and gangbangs


• Gunplay, especially fucking someone with a gun


• Watersports – I am mostly into it for humiliation or marking aspects, and am neutral about drinking piss (and would prefer if any drinking happens it’s someone having their mouth pissed in directly rather than just drinking a glass of pee/etc)

F/F – Smut and No-Smut

For the Librarian ships and the Modern Woman/Time Traveller ship, modern settings are very welcome!

Anti-Monarchist Revolutionary/Factory Girl Just Trying to Get By (F/F) - I'm so fascinated by the difference in outlook this ship implies! The revolutionary who can't imagine why the factory girl isn't just as passionate about overthrowing the monarch as she is, the factory girl who can't fathom why the revolutionary is focusing on her grand and unlikely plans when there are so many small things she could be trying to improve. Or perhaps they don't find themselves in conflict at all! I'd also love to see the revolutionary sheltering from the authorities with the factory girl, or the factory girl getting help against a horrible or abusive boss from the revolutionary and her comrades. Also, please feel free to go all out in terms of political worldbuilding, or leave those elements entirely in the background!

Aristocrat/Lower-Class Wife (F/F) - I love class differences in relationships, and you can go anywhere from "middle-class wealthy wife" to "maid/etc" for the social status of the lower-class wife. I'd love to see some friction with the aristocrat not understanding her wife's perspective on issues that come up in their relationship, maybe political disagreements or aristocratic society's treatment of the wife. I'd also love to see how they met and fell for each other, or the lower-class wife getting to enjoy some aristocratic excesses

Down On Their Luck Pirate/Merchant's Kid Who Wants to Blackmail Their Father (F/F) - Partners in crime falling for each other! I'm very into the pirate going into this as a way to make money but developing a great fondness for the merchant's kid, and the kid being ruthless yet inexperienced in the realms of crime and learning from the pirate. Is the merchant cheating tax laws? Illicitly driving the competition out of business? Hiring pirates to attack their competitors? Running a human trafficking ring? Straight-up murdering the competition? Feel free to go as light or as dark as you want with the blackmail material. Also, any genders for the pirate and merchant's kid are good by me!

Expert Blood Mage Sent Into Exile/Terrified New Blood Mage Looking For Sanctuary (F/F) - First off, I really love the aesthetic of blood magic. I'm especially into blood magic that involves the caster using their own blood, perhaps with some self-made scars. I'm also very into blood magic being reviled by society - perhaps that's the cause for the exile. The expert mage training the young mage in how to safely practice, and perhaps working through the young mage's self-loathing about her "evil" magic, would be great!

Female Suitor Sent As An Insult To Ruling Monarchs/Princess Uninterested In Male Suitors (F/F) - I am in love with the serendipity! Maybe the female suitor's company has entrenched societal homophobia and the princess's country is more egalitarian, or maybe the princess has her parents' promise that she'll be allowed to marry any of the suitors she chooses, and there's no take-backsies when that suitor happens to be female! I'd especially love it if the female suitor leans butch, and the princess is excited to be swept off her feet by a dapper young lady.

Librarian Skeptical About Romance/Regency Lady From The Latest Hit Harlequin Novel (F/F) - Is the librarian a romance novel fan who thinks there's no way she can experience love like that in the real world, or is she reading the Harlequin novel as part of her job? I'd really love to see the Regency lady exploring the modern world, and if she comes from an m/f novel, I'd also love to see her having a bisexual awakening. And the librarian feeling the stirrings of a love she never thought she'd get to experience!

Librarian/Knight From Favourite Fantasy Novel (F/F) - I'm so into characters from other worlds ending up in ours, and I'd love to see the knight adjusting to our world. I'd also love to see the librarian fangirling over meeting one of the characters from her favorite book. And does the knight decide to stay in the modern world? (Does she have a choice?)

Modern-Day Woman/Woman Who Time-Travelled From The Past (F/F) - Any era is great for the time traveller! I’d love to see her witnessing all of the technological and societal advances in the present, and slowly or not-so-slowly falling for her guide to the modern world. Comedic misunderstandings about modern cultural norms or tech is very fun! If you’re doing smut, introducing the time traveler to modern sex toys would be great fun.

Reclusive Rich Victorian Noblewoman/Extroverted Victorian Gentlewoman (F/F) - why is the recluse a recluse? Does she have agoraphobia or some other mental health thing keeping her in his manor, or perhaps a physical condition that makes going out arduous, or does she just not care for other people? How does the extrovert meet her? Perhaps they start up a correspondence – maybe the recluse has a side hobby of publishing scientific papers or political editorials and the extrovert has something to say about her work, or perhaps they meet at a ball that the recluse is unwillingly dragged to.

Regency Lady Who Needs a Respectable Match/Respectable Match She Immediately Dislikes (F/F) - Does the lady need a wife in order to secure her inheritance? Has she been partying too hard, and her parents have told her they'll cut her off unless she settles down? Feel free to pick your reason! I'd love to see her being obnoxious to the respectable match, but falling in love despite herself. I'd also love to see the respectable match being very different in personality than the Regency lady (maybe she dresses plainly, is bookish, is very into accounting, whatever you'd like) and the two of them finding joy in each other's interests

Scholar Taken Hostage By Bandits/Bandit Who Actually Wants To Hear More About Scholar's Work (F/F) - I'm very into nerds, and I'd love to see a scholar who's passionate about literally any real or fantasy field you choose! Perhaps the scholar is part of a caravan with a wealthy lord, so she gets swept along when the lord is kidnapped for ransom. Perhaps they take her thinking she's rich, and aren't quite sure what to do with her when she isn't. I'd love for her to perhaps end up joining the bandits in the end, either as another bandit or getting them to help with her research. As for the bandit, I'd love for her to perhaps be insecure about her intelligence, but actually having really great understanding of/insight into the scholar's research

F/F – Smut Only

Homesteader/Mail-Order Bride (F/F) - I really love marriage of convenience, and the spouses slowly getting to know and trust each other. It would be especially fun if the mail-order bride was expecting a husband and finds herself with a wife instead (is the homesteader disguising herself as a man for Reasons, was there a mix up at the mail-order bride offices, or something else?) I’d love to see what each of them expected out of this arrangement and how it subverts their expectations. Perhaps the bride was expecting her new spouse to expect sex, but the homesteader is a perfect gentlewoman and leaves it up to the bride as to whether anything physical will happen. Perhaps the homesteader expects a frivolous city girl and finds she’s married someone with a deep fascination for farm life.

New Queen/Her Cruel Older Brother's Widowed Wife (F/F), New Queen/Her Cruel Older Sister's Widowed Wife (F/F) - I am so in love with people leaving abusive relationships and finding a good and non-abusive partner, and this ship is such a good dynamic. Does the wife worry that the new quen will be just as horrible as her dead sibling? Does the new queen marry the widowed wife as a matter of course, or do they fall for each other while navigating politics together? Historical, fantasy, or alt-historical setting with no homophobia are all great

New Queen/Her Harem That Secretly Doubles As Trusted Advisors (F/F) - I love spies and advisors who are overlooked because of their social status or job, and I'd love to see the harem at work gathering information and/or advising the new queen! Did she know them prior to taking the throne? Did she inherit them from the prior ruler? Please feel free to go all-out political drama, or do relationship scenes interspersed with hints of what they're advising her on. And I've requested this under f/f but I'm very open to a mixed-gender harem (including sex scenes involving harem members of multiple genders), I just want at least some of them to be women.

Noblewoman/Her Childhood Best Friend Who Returns Disfigured From The Battlefield (F/F) - Were the noblewoman and the best friend together before the war, or maybe had a fling? Or perhaps one or both of them were pining for each other prior to the war, or they had no feelings whatsoever for each other pre-war but the war lasts a long time and when the friend returns, one or both of them has a "oh shit she grew up hot moment." For the friend, I’d love her to be still adjusting to her injury and feeling like she’s now shut off from relationships, and perhaps thinking for a while that the noblewoman is just taking pity on her. I’d also love to see her adjusting to new chronic pain or other disability that comes along with her injury. I have no preferences as to the nature of the disfigurement. Historical or fantasy settings are both great!

Princess Entering an Arranged Marriage/Her Princess Bride (F/F), Princess/Her Wife in Arranged Marriage (F/F) - I really love the awkwardness of getting to know your spouse post-arranged marriage, especially if the two barely or never meet prior to the wedding. Cultural differences or, if you go fantasy, species differences are very welcome! Feel free to go all out in political worldbuilding or just focus on the relationship, or anything in between. I also love their first time sleeping together, with perhaps some awkwardness with neither wanting to force the other into sex and so not initiating

Scarred Sex Slave Gifted as Insult/Foreign Diplomat Who Frees Her (F/F) - I'd especially love if the ambassador/diplomat is from a country without slavery and is horrified by the gift of a sex slave. I'd love to see the two living together and growing closer, and once romance happens, the diplomat assuring the former sex slave that she doesn't find her scars a deterrent at all. For smut, I am very into either the sex slave initiating or going along with sex she doesn't want and the ambassador/diplomat being horrified when she realizes what's happening, the ambassador being reluctant to respond to the sex slave's completely genuine advances because she fears the power imbalance and the sex slave being incredibly exasperated, or a combo of both!

Virginal Queen/Her Experienced New Wife Who Must Publicly Consummate the Marriage (F/F) - I love arranged marriages and I love the awkwardness of public consummation and I love experience differences! Would love to see the virginal queen having a very good time during the consummation, with the new wife showing her a great time. I'd also love awkwardness after the fact, as the two get to know each other as people after knowing each other so intimately. It would be especially delicious if the first time they meet is at the wedding! You can see above arranged marriage ships for things I like in a general arranged marriage

Young Victorian Woman/Her Chaperone (F/F) - I really love the young woman and her chaperone being in love/fucking while the young woman pretends to pursue eligible young men, and perhaps the two of them delighting in the fact that the young woman is being thoroughly debauched by the woman who's meant to be safeguarding her virtue. A very fun dynamic in my opinion would be the young woman as an outgoing socialite and the chaperone as more mousy and shy on the surface, and regardless of what personalities and relationship dynamics you go with, I"d love to see the contrast between how they behave in public and in private

M/M – Smut and No-Smut

For the Modern Man/Time Traveller pairing, a modern setting is very welcome!

Bookish Regency Gentleman/His Charming Outgoing Close Friend Who's Refused Every Past Suitor (M/M) - This would be a great pairing for mutual pining, I think, with both men feeling like they don't have a chance with each other. Perhaps the bookish gentleman thinks his friend wants someone who's more socially adept, and the friend thinks he's not smart enough for his friend to truly be interested. Or if you're going for a world with homophobia, perhaps they both think the other one is straight, with the bookish gentleman assuming his friend could have any woman he wanted and the outgoing friend turning down every match because he's hopelessly (he thinks) pining after his friend

Down On Their Luck Pirate/Merchant's Kid Who Wants to Blackmail Their Father (M/M) - Partners in crime falling for each other! I'm very into the pirate going into this as a way to make money but developing a great fondness for the merchant's kid, and the kid being ruthless yet inexperienced in the realms of crime and learning from the pirate. Is the merchant cheating tax laws? Illicitly driving the competition out of business? Hiring pirates to attack their competitors? Running a human trafficking ring? Straight-up murdering the competition? Feel free to go as light or as dark as you want with the blackmail material. Also, any genders for the pirate and merchant's kid are good by me!

Male Aristocrat/Male Lower-Class Husband (M/M) - I love class differences in relationships, and you can go anywhere from "middle-class wealthy husband" to "servant/etc" for the social status of the lower-class husband. I'd love to see some friction with the aristocrat not understanding his husband's perspective on issues that come up in their relationship, maybe political disagreements or aristocratic society's treatment of the husband. I'd also love to see how they met and fell for each other, or the lower-class husband getting to enjoy some aristocratic excesses

Modern-Day Man/Man Who Time-Travelled From The Past (M/M) - Any era is great for the time traveller! I’d love to see him witnessing all of the technological and societal advances in the present, and slowly or not-so-slowly falling for his guide to the modern world. Comedic misunderstandings about modern cultural norms or tech is very fun! If you’re doing smut, introducing the time traveler to modern sex toys would be great fun.

Reclusive Rich Nobleman/Extroverted Gentleman (M/M) - why is the recluse a recluse? Does he have agoraphobia or some other mental health thing keeping him in his manor, or perhaps a physical condition that makes going out arduous, or does he just not care for other people? How does the extrovert meet him? Perhaps they start up a correspondence – maybe the recluse has a side hobby of publishing scientific papers or political editorials and the extrovert has something to say about his work, or perhaps they meet at a ball that the recluse is unwillingly dragged to.

M/M – Smut Only

Ambassador/Disfigured sex slave given to him as a diplomatic insult (M/M), Scarred Sex Slave Gifted as Insult/Foreign Diplomat Who Frees Him (M/M) - I'd especially love if the ambassador/diplomat is from a country without slavery and is horrified by the gift of a sex slave. I'd love to see the two living together and growing closer, and once romance happens, the diplomat assuring the former sex slave that he doesn't find his scars a deterrent at all. For smut, I am very into either the sex slave initiating or going along with sex he doesn't want and the ambassador/diplomat being horrified when he realizes what's happening, the ambassador being reluctant to respond to the sex slave's completely genuine advances because he fears the power imbalance and the sex slave being incredibly exasperated, or a combo of both!

New King/His Cruel Older Brother's Widowed Husband (M/M), New King/The Widowed Husband of his Cruel Older Brother (M/M) - I am so in love with people leaving abusive relationships and finding a good and non-abusive partner, and this ship is such a good dynamic. Does the husband worry that the new king will be just as horrible as his dead brother? Does the new king marry the widowed husband as a matter of course, or do they fall for each other while navigating politics together? Alt-historical setting with no homophobia is great, as is fantasy.

New King/His Harem That Secretly Doubles As Trusted Advisors (M/M) - I love spies and advisors who are overlooked because of their social status or job, and I'd love to see the harem at work gathering information and/or advising the new king! Did he know them prior to taking the throne? Did he inherit them from the prior ruler? Please feel free to go all-out political drama, or do relationship scenes interspersed with hints of what they're advising him on. And I've requested this under m/m but I'm very open to a mixed-gender harem (including sex scenes involving harem members of multiple genders), I just want at least some of them to be men.

Nobleman/His Childhood Best Friend Who Returns Disfigured From The Battlefield (M/M) - Were the nobleman and the best friend together before the war, or maybe had a fling? Or perhaps one or both of them were pining for each other prior to the war, or they had no feelings whatsoever for each other pre-war but the war lasts a long time and when the friend returns, one or both of them has a "oh shit he grew up hot moment." For the friend, I’d love him to be still adjusting to his injury and feeling like he’s now shut off from relationships, and perhaps thinking for a while that the nobleman is just taking pity on him. I’d also love to see him adjusting to new chronic pain or other disability that comes along with his injury. I have no preferences as to the nature of the disfigurement. Historical or fantasy settings are both great!

Virginal King/His Experienced New Husband Who Must Publicly Consummate the Marriage (M/M) - I love arranged marriages and I love the awkwardness of public consummation and I love experience differences! Would love to see the virginal king having a very good time during the consummation, with the new husband showing him a great time. I'd also love awkwardness after the fact, as the two get to know each other as people after knowing each other so intimately. It would be especially delicious if the first time they meet is at the wedding! I really love the awkwardness of getting to know your spouse post-arranged marriage, especially if the two barely or never meet prior to the wedding. Cultural differences or, if you go fantasy, species differences are very welcome! Feel free to go all out in political worldbuilding or just focus on the relationship, or anything in between.