Candy Hearts Exchange Letter 2025
Jan. 4th, 2025 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisaintbcMy AO3 bookmarks. If you're a podficcer, you have my permission to podfic any of my fanfic that works for the exchange. Treats are always welcome!
I've added some more specific prompts for some of my requests, but feel free to ignore those if something else here piques your interest!
Likes:
Meh:
Do Not Want: My DNW list varies slightly by fandom; this the most complete version of it. I try to call out in the prompt when I've removed something intentionally.
In general, I don't want: detailed or lengthy medical gore (gore is fine, it’s the medical part that squicks me), break-ups-and-make-ups (just breaking up or a couple that starts the work broken up getting back together are both fine individually, it's the combo I don't enjoy), non-canonical vampires, non-canonical robots, infidelity, RPF (with the exception of long-dead historical figures), incest, high school AUs, PWP, cis-to-cis genderbending (exploring the possibilities of someone being trans or nonbinary is fine, please just no rewriting a cis man as a cis woman or vice versa), allo/cis/het depictions of canonically queer characters.
No scat, watersports, underage, age play, pet play, free use/partner sharing, mommy/daddy kink. I would generally prefer no unrequested kink at all, but these are the really hard nos.
For art: I would largely prefer not to receive art that depicts full-body nudity, although some tastefully arranged limbs covering an otherwise naked person's junk would be a fine workaround. I enjoy tragedy, but for art I would prefer no dead bodies (caskets, tombstones, etc, are all fine, as is someone who is clearly in the process of dying in their lover's arms) or extreme gore.
I've added some more specific prompts for some of my requests, but feel free to ignore those if something else here piques your interest!
Likes:
- road trips
- anything cooking-related
- romance
- courtship tropes
- comedy/wacky hijinks
- tragedy (incl. major character death)
- cozy curtain fic/slice-of-life
- found family feels
- locked/escape room type scenarios
- character studies
- mysteries/casefic
- supernatural shenanigans
- magical realism
- crossovers
- outsider POV
- historical AUs
- anything to do with fealty/loyalty/devotion/etc
- power dynamics
- I'm generally more interested in crossovers than fusions (a distinction which I realize dates me, lol), but I've got a huge soft spot for Ladyhawke AUs
- marriage of convenience
- mutual pining
- arranged marriage
- anything that involves a relationship (romantic or platonic, or even antagonistic) evolving out of two people being forced to work together, whether that's because two strangers are locked in a room, roommates suddenly acquired a kid, someone and their father-in-law have to assemble IKEA furniture together, whatever
- plants/floriography
- unreliable narrator
- soft color palettes
- earthy color palettes
- stylistic genre conventions (visual, but also in terms of written conventions like a noir monologue)
- anything that has sort of medieval or folklore vibes
- My kink interests run fairly vanilla, by fandom standards; I like things like A/B/O, dubcon, first time, very minor pain play. Anything you could realistically find in a romance novel sold at Barnes & Noble is probably going to work for me.
Meh:
- I like wilderness survival but know enough about it for inaccuracies to sometimes bother me
- I don't particularly care for stories about romances between sex workers and their clients, but if you want to write a story in which someone being a sex worker is just their job and not a prelude to romance, that's fine by me
- I often really like things that play with gender and gender expression as well as gendered societal expectations, especially when they edge into nonbinary territory. This can be a bit hit-or-miss for me in terms of fandom, though; I'm primarily interested in this for fandoms where canon is already playing with queer themes along those lines.
- I'm not the hugest fan of fake dating - I usually prefer two people actively trying to build a relationship, as in marriage of convenience/arranged marriage - but it can work for me sometimes. I enjoy it more when it's mostly there as part of a trope that I like, eg "we're investigating a Mystery and have to pretend to be a couple for Mystery Investigating Reasons"; "we're on a roadtrip and have discovered that if we tell the waitress it's our anniversary, at three diners out five we get free pie"; etc
- Scifi AUs largely aren't for me
- As a general rule of thumb, I don't tend to have much interest in celebrity AUs, reincarnation, or bodyswap
- I don't love first person POV, except in the case of some stylistic conventions (epistolary fic, noir AUs that imitate classic noir monologue style, etc are actually things I really enjoy)
- I like friends-with-benefits okay as long as the emphasis is on "friends"; if one or both of them is pining away for the other, count me out. Essentially, any relationship in which people are having sex-without-feelings suddenly introducing romantic feelings into the equation is a no-go for me, but the sex-without-feelings part is fine.
Do Not Want: My DNW list varies slightly by fandom; this the most complete version of it. I try to call out in the prompt when I've removed something intentionally.
In general, I don't want: detailed or lengthy medical gore (gore is fine, it’s the medical part that squicks me), break-ups-and-make-ups (just breaking up or a couple that starts the work broken up getting back together are both fine individually, it's the combo I don't enjoy), non-canonical vampires, non-canonical robots, infidelity, RPF (with the exception of long-dead historical figures), incest, high school AUs, PWP, cis-to-cis genderbending (exploring the possibilities of someone being trans or nonbinary is fine, please just no rewriting a cis man as a cis woman or vice versa), allo/cis/het depictions of canonically queer characters.
No scat, watersports, underage, age play, pet play, free use/partner sharing, mommy/daddy kink. I would generally prefer no unrequested kink at all, but these are the really hard nos.
For art: I would largely prefer not to receive art that depicts full-body nudity, although some tastefully arranged limbs covering an otherwise naked person's junk would be a fine workaround. I enjoy tragedy, but for art I would prefer no dead bodies (caskets, tombstones, etc, are all fine, as is someone who is clearly in the process of dying in their lover's arms) or extreme gore.
