Like a dandelion up through the pavement, I persist

• Fic that is largely canon compliant. Canon divergent AUs are great, fic that re-interprets or re-examines canon events with a different lens is also great. I am not especially reverent towards canon and non-canon compliant fic is not a problem, but I do really like fic that rattles the bars of its canonical confines while remaining within them (or stays within them for the most part). See also:
  • Post-canon fic and prequel fic—especially ones that are:
    • Character studies, especially of characters who are sparsely characterised or underutilised in canon.
  • Missing scene fic.
• Fic with a strong ensemble cast.
• Dramatic irony, especially when it’s comedic.
• Witty or otherwise humorous dialogue.
• As you can probably tell from the last two listed likes, I prefer fics with a comedic tone, or at least a comedic tinge (which can be ironic and/or bitter, in fics that skew more towards the dramatic side of the comedy-drama spectrum). I like pretty dry and understated humour, but I am also just a fan of Funny more generally.
• Bittersweet or melancholy fics are also wonderful. I am always a sucker for regret and missed opportunities/wasted time.
• Quiet, domestic stories.
• Exciting, dynamic stories.
• References to queer culture and history. This can be in conjunction with one or more queer ships, but can also be in a gen fic featuring one or more queer characters.
• Pining.
• Polyamory/non-monogamy, very much including forms of non-monogamy other than polyfidelitous triads, such as vee arrangements, polycules or open relationships etc.
• Emotionally intense and tempestuous co-dependent relationships, which can either get healthier over the course of the narrative or remain very much a "don’t try this at home" kind of depiction.
• Kid fic.
• Knitting or other kinds of crafts, especially from authors who are crafters and especially-especially when it includes technical or jargon-y details.
• Speaking of jargon, I love STEM-y things being featured in fic.
• I also love wildly unrealistic and campy fake science escapades.
• Things relating to ageing.
• Stuff about (wanted) pregnancy. Can be along the fluffy side or the kinky side.

• Getting together and/or stuff with a first kiss (I know, how NSFW, lol) or first time having sex. I particularly like if first time sex scenes (and sex scenes generally) aren’t Perfect™ and things are a little awkward in a way that the characters can laugh about.
  • First time bottoming and, more generally, first time doing X sex act or kink and/or characters realising that something they hadn’t given much thought to, or had assumed they wouldn’t be into, is something they’re really into. I’d prefer they go into it with a “Sure, I’ll try anything once” attitude rather than an “I’ll suffer through it for you 😥” attitude.
• Friends with benefits/platonic sex. This can turn into fuckbuddies-to-lovers, but it doesn’t have to. I am particularly partial to a character who wingmans for their fuckbuddy and gets them together with another love interest (whether or not the two friends continue to have platonic sex afterwards is fine either way).
• Non-penetrative sex.
  • Intercrural sex specifically. This can transition into penetrative sex or not.
  • Oral sex of all varieties.
• Virginity kink, even/especially if the fic itself doesn’t buy into the social construction of virginity as a concept.
• Re: the above, I really it like, in general, when a work winks at the idea that kinky elements are just roleplay and not Real. Not for moralistic reasons or anything, I just think it gives a nice atmosphere and feel to the relationship and dynamic between the characters to imagine them being kinky together on purpose, as opposed to fics that play to the kink, but are not explicitly written to portray the characters as kinky, if that makes sense. I've heard this described as diegetic kink, which I think is a fun term for it. I don’t mind if this is not something in play though, and I can definitely tell the difference between id-heavy smutty fan fiction and writing intended to be taken as a strictly literal account of how things are or should be done, if you find it clunky to write in-universe scenes.

• First or second person narration, unless that is canon typical.
• Mundane/modern AUs (e.g. college or coffee shop AUs, etc.)
• Harry Potter AUs/fusions
• Pregnancy related DNWs:
  • Unwanted pregnancy.
  • A character being coerced or tricked into becoming pregnant, even if they come around to the idea and/or are not upset by it (babytrapping from the side of the gestational parent isn’t a problem for me, because it’s a bodily autonomy thing for me mainly and also I’m a hypocrite).
  • Pro-life sentiment/politics endorsed by the narrative.
  • Abortion or miscarriage (re: the apparent contradiction with the last bullet point, for me this is like “there was only one bed” fic where they resolve it with someone sleeping on the couch, because I like pregnancy fic and the kind I seek out start from a premise that the pregnancy is wanted, even if unplanned).
• Dark fic. I’m fine with angsty or bittersweet fic or with stories that are framed as tragedies, but I do not want something that is primary intended to be disturbing, or that is unrelentingly miserable with no reprieve and no catharsis at the end.
• A strong focus on bigotry. You do not have to engage in historical revisionism or erase bigotry that exists in canon or the real world and I do enjoy fic that engages with the broader social contexts of various fandom settings, but I would prefer this wasn’t the primary focus.
• Fetishisation or romanticisation of a marginalised group. For example: race play, fetishisation of trans people, fat fetishism, fetishisation of physically disabled people’s bodies, romanticisation of mental illness, etc. One exception is that I do have a weakness for clueless class privileged characters who are poverty tourists, à la the song Common People, so I will say that I’m generally neutral-to-positive on this one, provided the character whose socioeconomic circumstances are being romanticised explicitly thinks that the poverty tourist is being a privileged dick, regardless of whether they also still have, or want to have, sex and/or a relationship with them.
• Intimate partner violence or other related forms of abuse.

• Non-con
• Consensual non-consent or other rape fantasies.
• 24–7 D/s relationships.
• Master/slave relationships.
• Degradation kink.
• Desperation kink.
• Edging.
• Chastity belts/cages.
• Erotic asphyxiation. Non-erotic choking is okay.
• Heavy pain play. Light impact kink or discomfort from restraints is fine.
• Sadism.
• Sounding.
• Things likely to edge near a hygiene squick.
• Characters consenting to sex they think they won’t like, whether they turn out to be right about this or not.
• Detailed descriptions of sex that is painful or unpleasant.

Requested relationships:

• Kira Darvis & Xenk Yendar
  I really want to see what Kira would think of Xenk. I imagine that she’d be disposed to like him, if only to be contrary to her father, and that he would treat her very seriously in a way that I think she’d appreciate because I don’t think Xenk condescends to children. Or at least no more than he does to everyone else.
• Solo: Themberchaud
  Themberchaud, my beautiful chaotic evil son! I was so worried that they were going to kill him and was extremely relieved when they didn’t manage it.

I'd be very interested to see a fic that includes stuff about his backstory, specifically about his past in Gracklstugh and how he came to escape it and be in Dolblunde by the events of the movie. Is he still allied with the duergar? Does he still do any smithing? Has he retired to sleep on his hoard all day and set fire to people who annoy him? I am equally happy to read a fic that has a blank slate take on the character though!

• Solo: Xenk Yendar
  I am violently in love with Xenk Yendar and would die for him. I love that he is so relentlessly earnest and kind, but also kind of a little stinker (see: him smirking when Edgin whispered that he hated him).

I read him as autistic, but I wouldn't necessarily use our-world terminology given the setting (although, that said, I think with TTRPG settings you can brazen out a Fantasty Costco here and there, so if you wanted to then go wild), so if you were drawn to that kind of reading of the character it might be fun to see him getting into various special interests, or having hyper or hyposensitivity that lead to him being sensory averse or sensory seeking (could be both in different contexts), or an autistic take on his strong sense of justice, etc.

I'm also very interested to read a pre-canon fic about him growing up after fleeing Thay and how he came to be a Paladin. How does he feel about the ways he's been changed by exposure to necromantic magic? Does he dwell on it much? Is he ambivalent when it’s helpful, e.g. his ability to see in the dark? Does he get close enough to others to feel conflicted about his extended lifespan, or is he too alienated as a Thayan to have lost many close friends? Is this something he is now grappling with after meeting the party?

• Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar
  I am so here for this ship. I love how wearily defeated Edgin seems to be by Xenk’s Goodness and sincerity. As a cynical son of a bitch with low self esteem whose chief weapon is a cleverness with words, I can think of nothing more disarming and frustrating than handsome, heroic Xenk Yendar who completely refuses to engage in verbal sleight of hand and keeps telling you that you're a good person who will do the right thing. I love this for Edgin.

Something post-canon where they get together would be great. It would be interesting to see how aware they both are of their own feelings and whether or not they are reciprocated. I can very easily see both of them being like "Well, obviously I'm down to clown, but he's not so nothing's going to come of it and that's fine" and then one or both of them casually says this and they are both like. Ah. Or maybe something where they are not entirely sure how to untangle sexual attraction from emotional attachment. Maybe one seems okay but the other is unthinkable, and which is which could differ between them?

• Edgin Darvis & Kira Darvis
  I'd love to read a fic where Edgin and Kira get to know each other again. It could be a little bittersweet with both of them trying not to think too hard about the time lost, or maybe Kira still has some lingering feelings about Edgin leaving her behind that are unresolved. I could see that even after knowing Forge had lied to her it would be hard to just Stop feeling some of the resentment that had become baseline for her. It doesn't have to be sad or fraught though! Something that's purely funny or cute would be very good too.
• Edgin Darvis & Holga Kilgore
  The rare "they're just friends, don't be gross" relationship where I'm fully on board with a strictly platonic reading! I adore Edgin and Holga's devotion to each other and how comfortable they are in being Messes around each other or even mean and prickly. They are certain of each other in a way that can let them take each other for granted sometimes, which is both touching to me and does also make me want to see them remember to be nice, haha. A fic where Edgin is doing the emotional heavy lifting of supporting Holga (maybe after her divorce?) would also be great because he does lean on her a lot in canon.
• Solo: Doric
  As a Fantasy High fan I was so excited when Doric wildshaped into an owlbear for the first time that me and my sister just kept shouting "Hoot, growl! Hoot, growl!" at the screen for the full duration of the scene. I love that she's so powerful and that tonally she's living in an entirely different story to everyone else a lot of the time.

I'm intrigued by how she conceptualises her own identity as a culturally elvish tiefling born to humans who rejected her. She seems very integrated into her community and unconflicted about her place in it, which is not always typical of "between two worlds" characters. If a human relative other than her parents wanted to reconnected, such as a sibling, would she entertain that? Does she have any wood elf step siblings? Who are her peers in the Emerald Enclave growing up? How connected is she to being a tiefling outside of her relationship to her human family of origin and her adopted wood elf family? Does she know any other tieflings?

I tend to read her as a lesbian, but don't feel married to that interpretation if you don't. I would prefer you didn't write shippy fic with her and Simon, although a fic about them trying to make it work and realising that they were better as friends would be cool.

• Doric & Xenk Yendar
  I feel like Doric and Xenk are probably the most earnest characters in the movie and I'd be interested to see how they relate to each other one-on-one. They are also both characters who are, for want of a better way of putting it, from human backgrounds but who are distanced in some way from that. Xenk's was changed by his brush with the beckoning death, Doric is a tiefling whose biological parents are human, and both of them were estranged from their biological parents. Do they think about these parallels? Has one of them but not the other?

Doric mentioned Xenk having helped the Emerald Enclave defeat the Clerics of Talos—was she there at the time, maybe as a child? She said she'd heard of him rather than that she'd met him, but did she maybe see him in passing? Maybe she would have related to his story. Possibly they had a very brief interaction that she doesn't think he'd remember, but then he does.

Fandom specific DNWs:

• Shippy Simon/Doric.

Requested relationships:

• Mary Bennet/Anne de Bourgh
  I have always felt quite sorry for Anne de Bourgh being stuck in Rosings with her mother all the time and not having the opportunity of society beyond visitors, who it doesn't seem like she has much say in either. It also must be a bit of a blow to her ego that, vast fortune aside, her mother seems to think the only person who could be prevailed upon to marry her is her cousin, and only then out of a sense of family duty to his own late mother. Mary, by contrast, sort of shuns the social opportunities she has, which often endears her to modern readers (and it does to me too!) but is a very bad plan from a pragmatic sense for someone due to inherit as little as she is. It's not as dramatic as Lizzie refusing Mr Collins, but Mary won't compromise her happiness for the sake of financial security either, which intrigues me. I think it's not a lot of a stretch to read Mary, with her moralising and lack of social graces and self awareness, as autistic, and Anne is canonically chronically ill, so I'd be interested to see how they would relate to each other as people who are both alienated from others by disability. And in terms of their class differences, would Mary be deferential out of respect for Lady Catherine's rank, like Mr Collins, or would she be awkward and rude? Would Anne enjoy awkward rudeness and a lack of deference as a change of pace?

How would they meet? At Pemberley? Is it likely Mary would be invited to stay with the Collinses and visit Rosings Park? Maybe she would live with the Collinses as a governess? I don't know if she would need to take up paid employement after her elder sisters' marriages, but I think she'd be stubborn enough to not want to depend on their husbands. Maybe if she was employed by the Collinses, she would be more inclined to accept the offer of practising piano in Anne's companion's room than Lizzie had been. Would Anne take this amiss?

I think there are a lot of ways you could throw these characters together and a lot of ways they could react to each other that would be very compelling to read about.

• Catherine "Kitty" Bennet/Georgiana Darcy
  Kitty and Georgiana's post-canon friendship is very sweet and I think it would take on a shippy dynamic very readily. And since Kitty living in Pemberley after her father's death (not that you have to kill Mr Bennet!) would be quite unremarkable, as would Georgiana living with her brother if she remained unmarried, it would be relatively easy for them to live together. Georgiana's wealth would also maybe make a little cheeky lesbianism less socially unforgiveable, à la Anne Lister, and potentially they could perhaps be semi-open about a relationship, or at least more indiscreet than if they were not insulated by class privilege.

Georgiana is such a Good Girl and quite shy compared to Kitty's puckish shamelessness and I'm interested to see how they took to each other so quickly given that they are so different. Georgiana does have a weakness for rogueishness, given Wickham's attempted elopement with her, so I think she would be very taken with Kitty, for all that she did canonically tame Kitty's wilder excesses (in public anyway).

Requested relationships:

• Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori
  It is hard to go wrong with Raleigh/Mako. The deep respect they have for each other and how fascinated they are by each other is endlessly compelling to me. I love all the small things, like how in their Jaeger, Raleigh's fighting stance is different to when he piloted with Yancy, and Mako being surprised that he spoke Japanese.

Beyond sparring, how else does their drift compatibility manifest? I would also love to see how they got to relate to each other outside of the context of drift compatibility after the end of the first movie. How are they different and strange to each other? What does it mean to be drift compatible when there's no more need for Jaegers? Does Mako lean on Raleigh in her grief, or does she think that would be too much to assume once they can't touch each other's minds anymore?

• Solo: Mako Mori
  Mako is very much the heart of Pacific Rim for me and I would love to read a character study about her. Even as she honours them, how much does Mako remember of her parents? Does the worst day she had with them overshadow the rest of her memories, or has she been able to hold on to more? What was her schooling like, moving between Shatterdomes? Has she always wanted to pilot a Jaeger, or did the desire grow more slowly?
• Chuck Hansen & Mako Mori, Chuck Hansen/Mako Mori
  I am grouping the & and / version of this relationship together to avoid redundancy here, and I am equally happy either a gen or a shippy take. I have always wondered about Chuck and Mako's pre-canon relationship to each other. Presumably they ran into each other on and off throughout childhood at various Shatterdomes—were they ever friends? Did they have a falling out or grow apart more slowly over time? Mako ran over to kneel down and pet Max when she saw the Hansens, and given that Max is a often read as a symbol for how Chuck and Herc show each other affection despite outwardly finding it hard, this seems significant to me.

I think it's not at all unlikely that they have had sex, either with or without romantic feelings involved, and that they have some fondness for each other despite Chuck's hostility toward Mako in the movie and their general amnity. If you wanted to write something post-Chuck's death where Mako reckons with her ambivalent feelings about Chuck, I think that would be very interesting to tease out, but I would equally be happy to read a PWP where they have frenemies-with-benefits thing, or a story about them being childhood friends.

• Newton Geizler/Hermann Gottlieb
  I love these guys and their nasty squabbling and sniping that lies over a deeply profound bond. By the time of the movie they are, effectively, the only peers the other has and the stress and their differing perspectives have made that such a fraught and bitter thing.

And yet, they care so deeply for each other! Maybe it is impossible to be honest about how much because they have to be able to work together to fight the Kaiju and if they risked the emotional intimacy of being honest about their feelings then they couldn't do that.

There is also the unavoidable tension of their forced proximity to each other and the fact that they have to work with someone whose metholodologies and hypotheses are completely alien to their instincts, but I think that it's not just a familiarity breeding contempt thing.

Fandom specific DNWs:

• References to Pacfic Rim: Uprising.
• Writing Hermann Gottlieb as married.

Requested relationships:

• Sylvia Bennington/Jack Holden/Michael Kellman/Peter Mitchell
  Whenever I see this movie I mourn the secret queer polyamorous version of it that exists in my head. I would adore to read a fic about Mary's various parents' relationships to each other. You don't have to have everyone/everyone in the exact same way, and I would really like seeing a less neatly squared away take. Maybe Michael is gay, maybe Peter is primarily interested in Sylvia, maybe Jack bedhops, maybe Sylvia dates other people as well.

Given that they are all raising a child together, I imagine that they were all very deliberate about how they got involved with each other and did not want to risk their family bond over evolving their relationships to each other. For Michael and Peter, who have no blood relationship to Mary, I can imagine this was a big factor to consider because a break up going badly could involve losing their daughter, who they have no legal tie to.

Something about their evolving conception of family and how it diverges further and further from the heteronormative nuclear family would be deeply compelling to me.

Feel free to diverge from the sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady, or not according to your own preference.

• Post-canon stories or, more broadly, stories that are largely canon compliant. Canon divergent AUs are great, fic that re-interprets or re-examines canon events with a different lens is also great. I am not especially reverent towards canon, but I like stories that rattles the bars of their canonical confines while remaining within them for the most part, if that makes sense. Also:
• Prequel stories, especially ones that are:
• Character studies, especially of characters who are sparsely characterised in canon
• Missing scene stories
• Stories with a strong ensemble cast
• AUs that are a completely different setting to canon, especially fusions with other canons such as Pacific Rim AUs or The Last Unicorn AUs. See DNWs for exceptions to this
• Dramatic irony, especially when it's comedic
• Witty or otherwise humorous dialogue
• As you can probably tell from the last two listed likes, I strongly prefer a comedic tone in fiction (or at least a comedic tinge, which can be ironic and/or bitter, in things that skew more towards the dramatic side of the comedy-drama spectrum)
• Bittersweet or melancholy stories are also wonderful. I am always a sucker for regret and missed opportunities/wasted time
• Quiet, domestic stories that have a sense of contentment about them
• Exciting, dynamic stories that have a sense of uncertainty about them. I particularly really love stuff where I don't know what's going on for 85% of the plot and then it all clicks into place in the last 15% as reveals that were set up earlier start to fall like dominoes
• Found family.
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  Characters can have any kind of relationship to their family of origin in these kinds of stories—I am equally happy with something about or featuring found families where the characters haven't spoken to their parents in years and never intend to again and things where one of the characters called their mom to talk to her about sourdough starter yesterday. Mixing and matching between these two extremes can be fun too!
• Queer platonic partnerships.
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  The character(s) can be aro and/or ace, and/or be sexually and/or romantically attracted to a different gender to their QPP, or they can just be queer platonic partners not due to a mismatch or a mutual incompatibility of sexual and/or romantic orientation but because that is the kind of relationship that suits them
• References to queer culture and history. This can be in conjunction with one or more queer ships, but can also be in something gen featuring one or more queer characters
• Pining.
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  Especially when the character's feelings are actually requited and they're just unaware (especially-especially if the reader is aware before the character is through clues given but not explicitly stated in the narration) but also when their feelings genuinely are one-sided
• Rarepairs
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  The interpretation of this term being used here includes ships that involve more than two partners. In most of my fandoms I usually end up getting more and more niche over time. I love when my first reaction to seeing a ship tag is, "Huh?" but then when I finish the work I'm completely sold by the execution of it because it feels true to the canonical characterisation of the characters and the evolution of the relationship (or invention of it, if they've never met before in canon) is a natural extension of that, so feel free to include ships that you really love that I have not mentioned in my fandom specific likes, as long as I haven't mentioned actively disliking them
• Polyamory/non-monogamy, very much including forms of non-monogamy other than polyfidelitous triads, such as vee arrangements, polycules or open relationships etc.
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  Your fic can be primarily about X/Y and have it as a background detail that this relationship is non-monogamous, if you like. I really like something that is about X/Y, but X's canonical relationship with Z also exists in the fic without anyone cheating or getting jealous. For examples of the kind of thing I mean, cosmic_llin has some great fic where Deanna Troi is dating something who is not her canonical love interest, Will Riker, while also being in an established open relationship with Will Riker
• Emotionally intense and tempestuous co-dependent relationships, which can either get healthier over the course of the narrative or remain very much a "don't try this at home" kind of depiction
• Unironic "issuefic."
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  This is a term that turns up in DNWs rather than likes in a lot of fandom exchange letters, in my experience, but I genuinely love reading about The Issues™. This can include, but is not limited to, things like disability theory adjacent themes, trans headcanons, depictions of characters being very deliberate and careful about respecting consent, unironic depictions of characters talking like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy, examinations of the broader social context of the settings of various fandoms, middle aged men trying to be kind
• Kid fic.
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  I prefer if the kid seems broadly realistic for the age they are depicted as being, but what is typical at a certain age varies a lot (I certainly had a very spiky developmental profile myself as a child) so don't stress about it
• Knitting or other kinds of crafts, especially from authors who are crafters and especially-especially when it includes technical or jargon-y details
• Speaking of jargon, I love STEM-y things being featured in fiction
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  like the stuff about mathematical proofs in astolat's Rodney McCay/John Sheppard fic Time in a Bottle. You don't have to go into enormous depth here to get a lot of bang for your buck in terms of how much it will please me. I nearly swooned when I read the main character of the novel Hold Me by Courtney Milan mention something about something being three standard deviations above the mean.
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• Wildly unrealistic and campy fake science escapades
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  à la this fic I wrote where a CEO character's R&D department creates a super soldier who he falls in love with or this fic trinityofone wrote for the same ship where the CEO character uses fake science, again from his R&D department, to babytrap his love interest. Basically though, if a bubbling, neon green liquid housed in a beaker that is smoking profusely appears in your fic then you are on the right track!
• Things relating to ageing.
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  Including, but not limited to: moments of wistfulness or melancholy about it, older characters having active and fulfilling sex lives, broader themes about ageing, or matter of fact inclusion of details about changes brought about with age. In terms of that last one, I once wrote a fic where a character's wrist started clicking after he fingered the woman he was having sex with for a long time, so stuff along those lines is great. That fic also had some sci-fi age-related stuff about the Phase where post-menopausal Betazoids' sex drive quadruples or more, so feel free to include speculative/sci-fi stuff about ageing too if it fits the setting of your fic!
• Stuff about (wanted) pregnancy.
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  Including, but not limited to: cloyingly fluffy family fic, breeding kink (and/or risky sex) and overly specific and/or scientific details about pregnancy itself. These details can relate to real pregnancy or speculative/sci-fi pregnancies featuring alien physiology or artificial wombs, etc. Speculative/sci-fi pregnancy does not have to be realistic for me to enjoy it! Depictions of real pregnancy would ideally have a higher degree of realism though, as pregnancy has been a long standing special interest of mine. I don't mean, by this though, that you have to give someone a difficult pregnancy because they're over 36 and that's "more realistic" or something (also, fwiw, my aunt had her first baby at 48 and she had a very healthy and active pregnancy), just that I would prefer that any specifics that you mention are accurate (so no feeling the baby kick before 16 weeks, for example). If you want to create a work that features someone having a difficult pregnancy, or complications like gestational diabetes, though, go right ahead! I would ask though that if you go this route that it's more along the lines of h/c than something that ends tragically.

  Notes regarding mpreg and people other than cis women getting pregnant

  Cis mpreg heavily depends on execution for me and I am generally not that interested in it—when I do read it, I prefer cis mpreg where pregnancy is not the norm for cis men in that universe and it's contextually a fake science or magic-related thing. I am okay with trans mpreg, especially written by other transmasculine authors, and with other AFAB trans people getting pregnant as long as it is a wanted pregnancy and any depictions of dysphoria are not extremely graphic. If you would like to create a work where a trans woman or transfeminine or other AMAB trans person gets pregnant, then I'm totally open to that and my preferences for that align more closely to the ones I've mentioned for speculative/sci-fi pregnancy that to my preferences relating to cis men being depicted as being pregnant. Rather than wanting the pregnancy to be depicted as unusual or unique, as is my preferance for cis mpreg, I would prefer a fic where transition related healthcare has progressed or is on the cusp or progressing far enough to allow this kind of pregnancy to happen. Also, despite what I just said about preferring this kind of pregnancy not to be depicted as being singular in-universe, if you want to write fic where your character has gotten pregnant after being granted a wish by fairies, say, that is set in a universe where transition related healthcare has not, and will not in the near future, allow for AMAB people to get pregnant, go right ahead! This is relatively uncharted territory, fic-wise, to my knowledge, so go forth and be fruitful, as it were 😉 My only truly strong preference here would be that your character is pregnant due to wanting to be pregnant rather than for another reason.

  I'm totally open to angsty fic about infertility that does not end with the character becoming pregnant (or, equally, fic where people do manage to get pregnant despite fertility issues). I prefer not to receive something that features miscarriages after 12 weeks for exchange gifts however, unless the character does manage to carry a pregnancy to term by the end of the story and the miscarriages are not depicted graphically. I am pro-choice, so where abortion is discussed (if, for example, the pregnancy was unplanned and the potential parent is thinking about options) I would strongly prefer that it was in a pro-choice context unless you really feel that one or more of the characters would be pro-life and the overall narrative itself did not endorse them on this. I have some pregnancy related DNWs at the link here, if you want to check to see what I do not want from this kind of story.
• Since I mentioned it briefly in the above bullet point: speculative or canon alien physiology in settings where this is relevant.
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  Can be related to non-human typical genital configurations or more along the lines of Spock's heart being where a human's liver would be and him having copper based blood
• Inclusion of sensory and sensual details (which may or may not be erotic) in the descriptions
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Getting together and/or stuff with a first kiss or first time having sex. I particularly like if first time sex scenes (and sex scenes generally) aren't Perfect™ and things are a little awkward in a way that the characters can laugh about
Oral sex of all varieties. I don't particularly care about erotica being historical accurate or not (or, indeed, about erotica being strictly realistic in general—it can be fun to write realistic sex, but if you want to write impromptu anal fisting, go for it! I have, lol), so feel free to include it in a setting where it would be unlikely, e.g. the Golden Age of Piracy
Friends with benefits/platonic sex. This can turn into fuckbuddies-to-lovers, but it doesn't have to. I am particularly partial to a character who wingmans for their fuckbuddy and gets them together with another love interest (whether or not the two friends continue to have platonic sex afterwards is fine either way)
Non-penetrative sex.
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The characters can be actively choosing not to have non-penetrative sex specifically because of practical concerns, such as them don't want to risk pregnancy, or them wanting to fuck right the fuck now and not wanting to wait for an opportune time for anal, or a character having vaginismus, or one or more of the characters just doesn't like penetration. It can also just be something with non-penetrative sex. In particular, I really like when stories don't make a distinction between penetrative and non-penetrative sex in terms of what is considered to be "real" sex, e.g. things like characters referring to a time they had oral sex as, "When we fucked" or similar small nods to non-penetrative sex also being sex
Intercrural sex. This can transition into penetrative sex or not
First time bottoming and, more generally, first time doing X sex act or kink and/or characters realising that something they hadn't given much thought to, or had assumed they wouldn't be into, is something they're really into. I'd prefer they go into it with a "Sure, I'll try anything once" attitude rather than a "I'll do it For You" attitude
Virginity kink, especially if the fic itself doesn't buy into the social construction of virginity as a concept

• Humourous lyrics or ironic pairings of clips with lyrics for a humorous effect
• I prefer if you use dialogue that it doesn't overlap with any lyrics and that there is no score from the canon source audible
• Character study vids
• Ensemble vids
• Uptempo vids with lots of quick cuts on the beat and a sense of movement
• But also: slower, contemplative vids with long clips

• First or second person narration, unless that is canon typical
Mundane modern AUs, e.g. college or coffee shop AUs, etc., especially AUs where the characters are aged down (return to where you left off in General Likes) Historical AUs set in the real world are fine
• Dark fic. I'm fine with angsty or bittersweet fic or with stories that are framed as tragedies, but I do not want something that is primary intended to be disturbing or that is unrelentingly miserable with no reprieve and no catharsis
• Consensual non-consent or other rape fantasies
• 24-7 D/s relationships; Master/slave relationships
• Humiliation kink. Non-kinky humiliation is fine
• Degrading or insulting language in a kink context
• Erotic asphyxiation. Non-erotic choking is okay
• Heavy pain play. Light impact kink or discomfort from restraints is fine
• Sadism
• Sounding
• Generally err on the side of caution with kinks I haven't specifically requested
• More than passing depictions of bigotry. I enjoy things that engage with the broader social contexts of various fandom settings, but I do not want something centred primarily around experiences of bigotry in the context of an exchange
• Fetishisation or romanticisation of a marginalised group e.g. race play, fetishisation of trans people, fat fetishism, fetishisation of physically disabled people's bodies, romanticisation of mental illness, etc. I do have a weakness for clueless class privileged characters who are poverty tourists, à la the woman in the song Common People, so I will say that I'm okay with this one, provided the character whose socioeconomic circumstances they are romanticising explicitly thinks they're being a dick by doing so (regardless of whether they also still have, or want to have, sex and/or a relationship with them)
• Non-con or dub-con
• Characters consenting to sex they think they won't like, whether they turn out to be right about this or not
• Detailed descriptions of sex that is painful or unpleasant
• Intimate partner violence or other related forms of abuse
• Pregnancy related DNWs
• Unwanted pregnancy
• Stories where a character is coerced into becoming pregnant
• Stories where the overall narrative explicitly promotes a pro-life sentiment
• Pregnancy fic where the pregnancy ends in abortion or miscarriage (I'm pro-choice, but I also really like pregnancy fic, so for me this is like using the "there was only one bed" trope and then resolving it with someone sleeping on the couch)