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plainstyles Background by rawpixel.com / Freepik.Programmer, occasional fanfic writer and fan artist, rationalist adjacent. LJ fandom expat, aspiring tumblr expat. I have some long-running interests like baboons and market minorities that I keep revisiting, partially out of a desperation to embrace the illusion that I have a persistent, legible identity.
I live in Seattle.
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Fic exchange letter
May. 26th, 2023 05:43 pm( Read more... )
I like:
- dom/sub
- teacher/student (if you're doing teacher/student, consider reading this post on what subtypes I like)
- power imbalance in general
- having sex in hot but angsty circumstances
I also like bad stuff:
I also like bad stuff:
- noncon, dubcon
- mind control
- sexual slavery
- incest (parent/child > sibling > anything else)
- forced public sex (i.e. the victim is horrified by the public nature of it)
- underage, although I'd prefer "how uncomfortable this scene is meant to be" to correlate negatively with character age
- underage, although I'd prefer "how uncomfortable this scene is meant to be" to correlate negatively with character age
- humiliation (e.g. verbal humiliation, making someone kiss feet, stepping on them)
Dislikes and DNWs:
Honestly, passing mentions / brief flashbacks to basically all of these are okay. I have practically no porn squicks. But I don't like it when the following elements are part of the main porn:
Honestly, passing mentions / brief flashbacks to basically all of these are okay. I have practically no porn squicks. But I don't like it when the following elements are part of the main porn:
- Scat
- Extreme torture
- Bestiality (i.e. nonsapient animals – sapient bipedal characters with animal characteristics are great)
- Extreme torture
- Bestiality (i.e. nonsapient animals – sapient bipedal characters with animal characteristics are great)
- A character who is taking zero sexual pleasure from a sexual situation
Tastes in everything else
Likes:
- Characters who have strong emotions about each other
- werewolves / dogboys / catgirls
- werewolves / dogboys / catgirls
- loyalty kink
- clones or alts running around competing with each other and sleeping with the same people
- intellectual / curious protagonists (fine if this streak is buried under a bunch of other baggage / not visible for lots of the story)
- alien morality / species with very different values
- tragic character who walks towards their own doom while knowing it's their doom
- a relationship that makes most people seeing it go "that's fucked up" but is actually reasonably (although not completely) healthy
- endings that are 50-90% happy
- a relationship that makes most people seeing it go "that's fucked up" but is actually reasonably (although not completely) healthy
- endings that are 50-90% happy
Dislikes and DNWs:
- (Not a DNW) I mildly dislike the first person, but have read and written fiction in it. If you really prefer it, go for it! If you're ambivalent, please do third person. I feel the same way about present tense (I distinctly but non-strongly prefer past tense).
- Cartoonish villains. It's okay if they're not sympathetic, but they must have real thoughts that seem to belong to real people. My favorite villains are intelligent and thoughtful and their internal logical is compelling. I am, however, fine if a cartoonishly evil / flat villain is a minor character, whose villainy exists so that the protagonist or main villain (who is terrorizing the protagonist in a more complicated way) to react to stuff.
- Culture war / current events. I am extremely online on tumblr/twitter, and while I'm very fond of my internet subculture, I strongly do not want to read about characters who sound like they are terminally online.
Plug for better themes
Jan. 20th, 2019 01:31 amWant to link dreamwidthlayouts for themes that are sometimes much nicer than the ones you can pick out of the Dreamwidth journal style settings – I'm very pleased with my current one. You'll have to select a particular style as usual in the settings and then copy paste some CSS.
I like the subset of themes that are tagged 'simple' and the subset that's tagged 'muted'.
dreamwidthlayouts for themes that are sometimes much nicer than the ones you can pick out of the Dreamwidth journal style settings – I'm very pleased with my current one. You'll have to select a particular style as usual in the settings and then copy paste some CSS.I like the subset of themes that are tagged 'simple' and the subset that's tagged 'muted'.
A surprising fraction of life consists of writing an email I'm nervous about sending, hitting send, playing a game of chicken with myself while staring at the undo button on gmail's web client, watching it disappear and thinking "well, I will die at some point that'll come surprisingly soon, this is a pretty insignificant event in my life, whatever", and clicking out of gmail while holding that reassuring closeness of death in my thoughts as a talisman against the anxiety of having sent the email.
I'm not saying that this comprises a lot of life. I'm saying this comprises a surprising amount of it. Every time I do it, I think, "Huh, this again? Surely at some point I will stop enveloping myself in the reassuring closeness of death as I stare at the undo button?" – and the minutes, they stack up.
I'm not saying that this comprises a lot of life. I'm saying this comprises a surprising amount of it. Every time I do it, I think, "Huh, this again? Surely at some point I will stop enveloping myself in the reassuring closeness of death as I stare at the undo button?" – and the minutes, they stack up.
