Original 5k Letter 2022

Thank you for writing 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 write any characters as trans or nonbinary, or go for any sexualities, any disabilities, etc. I'll love anything with these ships, so feel free to disregard my prompted plots if you have another idea!

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

• Unrequested pregnancy, any childbirth - mentions of pregnancy are fine, but if pregnancy isn't involved in the tag, I don’t want fics going into detail about pregnancy, related medical concerns, h/c related to pregnancy, etc. Past mpreg is also fine, as is characters discussing whether they want to have children in the future


• 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 - modern settings with magic/urban fantasy/etc are fine, just please no completely mundane modern settings unless requested

General Likes

• I love all tenses and POVs!


• I enjoy aromantic, noromo, no-strings-attached sex, or similar takes on my ships as well as romantic ones


• 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

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!

Blood Magician/Music Magician (F/F) – Two of my favorite types of magic! I'd love for you to dive into either worldbuilding or descriptions of what the magic looks like when it's being worked/what actions the magicians take. If you have a plot in mind, feel free to run with it! If not, a few things I've been thinking about. Maybe one of them is a government-sanctioned magician and the other one is an illicit street magician? Maybe they solve crimes or help people together? Maybe something set when they're learning magic? Something where one of them had an abusive magical teacher and they're trying to work through the trauma and practice magic on their own terms?

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!

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!

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.

Blood Magician/Music Magician (M/M) - Two of my favorite types of magic! I'd love for you to dive into either worldbuilding or descriptions of what the magic looks like when it's being worked/what actions the magicians take. If you have a plot in mind, feel free to run with it! If not, a few things I've been thinking about. Maybe one of them is a government-sanctioned magician and the other one is an illicit street magician? Maybe they solve crimes or help people together? Maybe something set when they're learning magic? Something where one of them had an abusive magical teacher and they're trying to work through the trauma and practice magic on their own terms?

Expert Blood Mage Sent Into Exile/Terrified New Blood Mage Looking For Sanctuary (M/M) - 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 his "evil" magic, would be great!

Ghost of WWI Soldier/Man Who Now Lives In His House (M/M) – I love both WW1 and ghosts, and anything that combines the two would be great! I'd love to see the new resident of the house trying to convince himself he's imagining the haunting before something happens that he can't deny or pretend he's imagining. I'd also love to see the living man looking into what happened to the ghost soldier's family members and/or fellow soldiers for him. Also, if you're doing smut, I love any and all takes on ghost sex, so go wild!

Navy Captain/Pirate Captain Nemesis (M/M) – Feel free to go full historical or do a fantasy setting, steampunk airship captains, etc. I love enemies-to-lovers arcs! My first thought is the navy captain being captured by the pirate captain and slowly seeing that the pirate captain isn't as evil as he expected (and in fact life in a pirate is way freer [and way less homophobic?] than life in the navy), or the navy captain taking the pirate captain captive and the pirate captain slowly talking him over to the side of piracy through vigorous intellectual debates.

WW1 Vet with Facial Injury Who Steals Dead Soldier's Identity/Dead Soldier's Secret Lover (m/m) – So my two scenarios for the identity stealing that I have in mind are either (1) the soldier has criminal charges or a mob hit or something waiting for him back home and knows that his dead comrade never mentions a family/fiancee/etc, so he switches out their identification when the dead soldier dies in front of him, or (2) the identification mix-up happens when our protagonist is unconscious and he decides to roll with it when he wakes up, possibly for the same reasons as (1). But whoops, it turns out the dead guy did have loved ones, they were just secret because of his sexuality! I'd love to see the lover as someone who couldn't join the military for medical reasons if you're down for that. Does the lover allow the vet to go along with the charade of being his dead lover? Maybe asks him to tell him everything about his dead lover's time at the front? When and how do they start to fall for each other? I'd love to see some injury recovery and adapting to scarring and/or new disability with the injured soldier as well. (My first thought of something that would obscure his identity is facial burns, but anything else is good too)

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!

Original F/M – Smut and No Smut

Regency Woman Pregnant After Rape/Man Who Marries Her to Save Her Honor (F/M) – I'm very into how the high stakes of virginity and status in Regency and Regency-esque would add to and compound the trauma of being raped, and would love to see the Regency woman's first sexual experience being this rape. (The rape can be offscreen, or you can go full detailed noncon in the work.) Is the man a friend or a suitor who she confides in? A friend of her family, a cousin, etc? Someone who came across her as or immediately after the assault took place? If you go for smut, I'd love for her to ask him if all sex is like her rape, and him heartbrokenly explaining to her that it definitely isn't, perhaps with some guided masturbation and/or nonpenetrative sex. This ship is obviously an exception to my pregnancy DNW, and feel free to get as detailed as you want about the pregnancy, but I'd prefer the childbirth to be off-screen. I'm also very open to either miscarriage or abortion, possibly with the woman having conflicting feelings about the end of the pregnancy (for abortion, maybe a friend of either of the characters has contacts but doesn't find out about the pregnancy until after the wedding)

Original Gen (No Smut)

Regency Woman Pregnant After Rape & Man Who Marries Her to Save Her Honor (Gen) - I'm very into how the high stakes of virginity and status in Regency and Regency-esque would add to and compound the trauma of being raped, and would love to see the Regency woman's first sexual experience being this rape. (The rape can be offscreen, or you can go full detailed noncon in the work.) Is the man a friend or a suitor who she confides in? A friend of her family, a cousin, etc? Someone who came across her as or immediately after the assault took place? I'd be interested in a story where the man has another lover he can't marry for social status reasons and/or is gay, and when the woman is very upset about trapping him into a marriage, he confides in her. Feel free to give the woman another lover (especially a woman) as well! This ship is obviously an exception to my pregnancy DNW, and feel free to get as detailed as you want about the pregnancy, but I'd prefer the childbirth to be off-screen. I'm also very open to either miscarriage or abortion, possibly with the woman having conflicting feelings about the end of the pregnancy (for abortion, maybe a friend of either of the characters has contacts but doesn't find out about the pregnancy until after the wedding). I've requested no smut due to this being a gen pairing, but explicit rape on page is very welcome (although definitely not necessary).

Original Other – Smut and No Smut

Austen-Esque Regency Heroine/Her Trans Love Interest (F/Any) – I just really love historical trans characters and historical romance with trans leads! No preference at all for the love interest's gender. My plot ideas are generally for a world with Regency-typical transphobia, but feel free to set in a transphobia-free world and disregard specific plots. Perhaps a Regency heroine with no feelings for men finds herself unexpectedly drawn to one of her suitors, and then that suitor confides in her about their true gender and suddenly things start to make more sense (and perhaps they move to a country estate where they can both live their best non-closeted lives…) Or a transmasc love interest who feels bad about not being able to give their wife a biological child meets a heroine whose only qualm with marriage is that she never wants to be pregnant. Perhaps our heroine meets a dashing trans highway robber and joins them in a life of crime, leaving society's expectations of her behind.

Original Other – Smut

New Monarch/Their Harem that Secretly Doubles As Trusted Advisors (Any/Multi) - 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 monarch! Did our monarch know them prior to taking the throne? Did they inherit the harem 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 the monarch on.

Original Mixed Gen And Ship - No Smut and Smut

Austen-Esque Regency Heroine/Her Female Love Interest & Gay Man One of Them Marries as a Beard, Wife in Lavender Marriage/Her Female Lover & Husband/His Male Lover (Mixed) -
I just really love platonic marriages of convenience! I would love to see how the relationship comes about, and I would also love it if the two couples/the couple and the husband are good friends. An origin story about the start of the marriage or something set during their everyday lives would both be good! For the latter tag, I'm not fussy about setting - Regency is fun, or perhaps Golden Age of Hollywood or something with historical nobility.