Fic exchange letter

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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:

- 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

- 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:
 

- Scat
- 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

- 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

 

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.