10001 Nightmares Party

Hello, I'm TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername on AO3, and this is my General Exchange Letter.

This letter was cobbled together from my Generic Exchange Letter on Dreamwidth, my Yuletide 2024 letter, and my CIEX 2024 letter. It should cover most everything I can think of, but the gist is this: have fun! XD You don't need to constrain yourself to my letter or my optional details in my request(s): If you have an idea you want to write for me, then as long as it doesn't go against my DNWs (which may differ slightly from request to request), go wild! <3

Enjoy yourself and the story you're telling—let's have a good time together! XD

Please see the following links for some quick navigation around this letter:

General DNWs

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A Note on My DNWs

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General Dislikes & Pet Peeves

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General Likes

My tastes run varied and wild; I like domestic fluff and some crack treated seriously just as much as I do angsty fics that tear my heart out (provided they heal it again, LOL); I'm just as much up for dark romance (as long as it adheres to my DNWs) as I am a fluffy lighthearted, heartwarming romance; terrible characters doing terrible things and also being in love (with potentially less terrible people?) is fun, good people willing to commit murder when their lines are crossed is fun, a cozy walk under the starlight is fun! A lot of things is fun!

I'm always up for some lore/worldbuilding, and I have a perpetual tendency to get attached to characters the narrative don't want/expect me to like. I'm always down for explorations and what-ifs for them!

In general, I like it when things are mutual. Characters mutually manipulating each other is good, mutual pining is good, mutual obsession, mutual protectiveness, etc. are all good. I like characters enjoying each other presence, knowing each other and supporting each other, and appreciating each other, even if the things they appreciate are superb murder skills, lol.

I like worldbuiling, character studies, crack treated seriously. Taking a silly concept and running it to the most serious conclusion. Logistical worldbuilding like laws, and transportation, and agriculture and production lines. Digging into the setting, so to speak.

I like monsters and aliens and unexpectedly sentient creatures in love. I like morally ambiguous/immoral characters in love, I like loyalty and devotion and characters sticking by each other. I like characters getting out of bad situations and choosing, perhaps, to not forgive somebody who's hurt them. I like characters moving on, and healing, and finding joy.

I like characters overcoming setbacks, and learning how to deal/live with setbacks they don't/can't overcome, i.e. chronic illness, permanent/long-term disability etc. I like characters making the best of things, in apocalyptic settings and so on. Sometimes things can't be fixed, and that's okay. (But also sometimes things can be fixed, and that's okay, too (i.e. fix-it fics, lol).)

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Likes: General

Likes: Tropes

Likes: AUs

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Smut

I'm cool with anything from no smut, to fade to black, to extremely explicit smut. I don't particularly care about the sex itself; it's the emotions that do it for me. It can be super kinky, it can be super vanilla; I want pining, tension, enjoyment, love, etc. They don't have to be exclusively good feelings; trepidation, fear, desperation, etc. are all good too, but if there's gonna be smut I want something beyond sex for the sake of sex.

In general, I like it when the characters enjoy the smut, too—whether that's reluctantly, enthusiastically, begrudgingly, didn't-think-they-would-but-is-actually-really-into-this, etc. Dubcon is okay—to put a line to it, the dubcon shouldn't be completely unenjoyed by the one being dubconned, and they shouldn't like, feel gross afterward. Under/non-negotiated kink is okay.

I like intimacy, emotional and physical, and I like characters wanting to make each other feel good. I like it when there's trust in the smut, and worldbuilding, and character studies.

I'm cool with asexual characters enjoying sex, or trying it out and figuring out they don't enjoy it, however the dice falls. I absolutely do not want acephobia in ace smut.

More specific stuff that’s okay (but you don’t need to stick to this): dom/sub • bondage • cockwarming • manhandling • rough sex • soft/gentle/tender sex • enthusiastic consent • monsterfucking • competence kink • loyalty kink • orgasm denial/control • possessiveness • size kink • bigger (and/or more powerful (physically/politically/financially etc.) bottom/smaller (and/or less powerful (physically/politically/financially etc.) top • sex with feelings • smut with worldbuilding/character studies • physical/emotional intimacy • safe sane and consensual • Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane • collars • dirty talk • breath play • objectification • blindfolds • humiliation • punishment • aftercare • feminization

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Dark Content

A couple of the fandoms I request sometimes are pretty dark, canonically. I want to assure you that I'm very much a-okay with canon-typical fucked up content/relationships, including "problematic" ones—barring anything that falls under my DNWs. To put it simply, my DNWs override canon events. By this I am primarily referring to teeth stuff—I DNW teeth trauma/loss; it is, not overstating it, my biggest DNW. And I know it canonically happens in some of the fandoms I'm requesting! But please, don't even reference it.

Now, on more general lines; I have no problems with unhealthy dynamics, unhealthy relationships, problematic pairings, etc. When I DNW unhappy endings etc. I just mean that the main character shouldn't be dead, miserable, unhappy, brooding, wallowing in regret etc. at the end. I want my main character/pairing happy! But everybody else can die for all I care, LOL.

It's perfectly fine for it to be a fucked up happy ending, too. Like the MC embracing being murder husbands and going off on a road-trip killing spree with their lover; I'm sure lots of other characters will be very unhappy about that, but I only care about my blorbos, sorry.

Dark Romance/Erotica Tropes I'm Definitely OK With, If You Want To Go There: Abduction/Kidnapping • Sex Auction • Stalking • Obsession • Psychopaths/Sociopaths in Love • Murder Husbands • Forced Relationship • Blackmail • Power Imbalance/Dynamics • (Mutual) Obsession • Codependency • Twisted & Fluffy Feelings • Corruption

That said; just because it's a darker canon doesn't mean I wouldn't also low a fluffy, lighthearted, wholesome, etc. fic for it. Canon-divergence! What-ifs! For want of a nail! They're just super happy and together and have a healthy relationship, and you know, also kill people if that makes 'em happy! XD

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Gore & Violence

I'm okay with violence, but I don't want graphic depictions of gore. Blood is cool, have fun punching each other, sword fights, guns, etc. all good, but I don't want detailed descriptions of brain matter and guts; and also no teeth stuff. Like, it's okay for a character to get tortured but I don't want torture porn and I'm not interested in a steb-by-step description of the torture.

Relevant DNWs: teeth loss/trauma, nail & eye trauma, loss of limbs (this includes tongue) (it also includes partial limb loss).

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Noncon/Dubcon

While I DNW underage noncon, I don't do a blanket DNW for this. That said, when if doing an xcon fic, I do prefer it to be (just) between the requested characters, because that's who I'm requesting; I'm not interested in other characters taking the focus. Especially as my preferred type of xcon is the xcon-to-con pipeline, lol, and I'd love the characters to have hope of a functional, if unhealthy, relationship at the end.

I'm not interested in 'realistic' noncon, is what I'm saying.

I like xcon because I don't like sex for the sake of sex. I’m the kind of ace that just don’t get that and xcon, by the nature of the beast, tends to lend itself very well to lots of Emotions™️ with the smut. It feels a little bit weird to say I read erotica for the Feelings™️ but I’m serious; I like my smut with plot and character/relationship studies, with world-buildng and scheming and characters who are doing something for a reason, whether it’s out of duty, for their own sadistic pleasure, or just because they’re super smitten.

Weather it’s positive or negative emotions is just as cool; fear, trepidation, eagerness, anticipation—I just crave something I can dig my teeth into, you know.

I probably have a preference for dubcon over noncon, but that’s just because I do want my requested characters to be happy at the end. Any path there is a-okay: noncon —> dubcon —> con, dubcon —> con, noncon —> con, con —> dubcon —> con, etcetera. Go wild!

For noncon, I do prefer the eroticized noncon kind; if it's just, 'oh no this is so traumatic and gross and fucked up and shitty and horrible' then like I'm not intersted in that, LOL. For any kind of xcon, tropes that make my brain go brrrr is stuff like blackmail, forced relationship, warprize, out of duty, debt, as a tactic for a mission, trying to manipulate somebody, etcetera.

I want that inner conflict, that 'duty vs self(care)', that corruption, that 'dragging somebody else to your level', that 'in over your head and there’s no way out but further in', that 'really picked the wrong person to honeypot', etc., kind of vibes. Emotions! Manipulation! Corruption! But like, mutually—eventually! It doesn’t have to start that way, but I would love the requested characters to just kind of grow into each other, find that compromise, figure out how to be happy together, even if they have to break each other a bit first, LMAO.

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Optional Prompts

Collected by going through the freeform tags I've requested in various exchanges—more can be found here.