general items

[daken]

likes!

⟡ Relationships! I'm into reading about how relationships work: their unique dynamics, how they support one another, how they relate to each other, how they interact [pre-, post-, & during-canon when “offscreen”]; where their wants and needs mesh up, as well as where they differ.

Established relationships are kind of my jam because I love seeing the and then? aspects of couples figuring things out & carrying on after they've gotten together; that's where the interesting stuff shows up for me: tthe day to day their lives & intricacies therein. How do they fit one another into their routines? What things do they do (or don't do) because they've got that other person in their lives? How does having a significant other muddle with their ethics or other commitments? How do they juggle contrasting priorities? How does the world — in general, or their specific social sphere — treat them & how do they navigate that?

That said, I enjoy get-togethers as much as the next stan & have rarely met one I didn't like!

⟡ Fucked-up, unhealthy relationships! Codependent relationships, obsessive relationships, & so on: you can be giving it all to me.

Them doing questionable things or neglecting themselves to make their partner happy; I love it when they put themselves or the other person in precarious situations just so they can have their desired outcome; letting the ends justify the means.

My favorites are when the characters know — be it fully or a suspicion — that what they're feeling, and the degree to which they're feeling it, isn't healthy, but they enjoy it so much they can't bring themselves to care. Them being equally, fuck-up-ed-ly invested in their relationship is what I live for.

I love when a character is willing to let the world burn should the world try to come between them & the person they love, or they're willing to set the world on fire if it means finally getting that person all for themselves.

⟡ I love codas, alternate canons, semi-alternate universes, & canon divergences, &/or slight changes to canon that don't end up changing much at all because fate always finds a way. My prompts typically range from plotty monstrosities to domestic slice-of-life details & I'd adore receiving either, or seeing you change what might fall into one camp into something that fits in the other.

⟡ Rather than miscommunication causing drama, I love it when bluntness & frankness cause that tension instead. Characters saying what they want or confessing they've done, point-blank, & then leaving it to the other character to decide if they can handle that; quiet characters taking their time and mulling over their choices before telling the other person what they want; different cultures or moral constructs & discovering unique ways to bridge/overcome them; as well as any other communication-based drama that you can think of that doesn't hinge on not having the full story or hearing the wrong thing at the worst time are always stories that engage me.

⟡ Stories that starts in the "middle"/in medias res of the overarching plot. I don't need a lot of world-building setups, especially if that's not something you're really into doing. If you've decided to take up one of my AU or divergent ideas, rest assured that I already know the basic background of what's going & you are welcome to go right on ahead with the action of the story, if that's what you want.

However, if half the fun of AUs & divergences involves delving deep into the universe & making yourself at home there, go wild!

I'd also want to say that I love, love, love genre mashups. Vampire Westerns, Werewolf RomComs, Slice of Life Action, Noir SciFi, Heist High Fantasy, Historical Dynamics Set in the Modern Era, Social Commentary Horror — a lot of my prompts probably get this across in & of themselves, but I'm that person who you can write weird, off-the-wall plots for any day of the week.

⟡ Anything from G-rated schmoop to NC-17 sex is alright in my book.

Should you include a sex scene, here’s a general list of kinks/scenarios that I'm cool with:

age regression, age differences, underage, made-them-do-it, water sports (for marking/scenting and/or intimacy; less about being super into pee or humiliation), conditioning, frottage, gentleness, identity porn/anonymous sex, rough sex, marking, switching/no set sexual “roles”, possessiveness, power issues, abuse of power, dubcon, semi-public sex, sensory overload, sex addiction/compulsion, silence, d/s that’s focused on taking care/being cared for more than pain/humiliation, size differences and power dynamics — feel free to have the "smaller”/younger/more docile dude be more "dominant”/aggressive member of the relationship —, touching, slavefic, delayed emotional intimacy paired with very quick physical intimacy, captivity.

⟡ Tropes that I never fail to love:

forced closeness, amnesia, viking au, gladiator/greek/roman au, tribe/barbarian/pre-history au, android aus, western/rancher/farmer aus, power differentials, trope inversions & subversions, soul mates/soul bonds, fake relationships, sugar daddy/transactional relationships, forced/arranged marriages, woke up married, bodyswaps with themselves from a different multiverse, gentleness, stuck in isolation together, sex before feelings, exploring physical disabilities (losing sight/hearing/the ability to a speak).

dislikes!

⟡ Deathfic as an ending. If they’re brought back to life via the supernatural, reincarnation, turned into a cyborg, etc — or the story continues in the afterlife, I'm good. As long as the story doesn't end with "[…] and they died, the end", you're fine. 

⟡ Whump/excessive angst wherein the majority of the fic is self-pity/sadness or miscommunications, and a tiny section at the end is happy/resolution. If from the outside, or as an observer, the events are sad but the character(s) experiencing them as their normal life are happy, content, &/or blind to it, then that's fine! I dislike when half or more of the fic focused on someone's sadness/angst and how they react or wallow in said angst.

⟡ Embarrassment/humiliation (kink or otherwise), painplay/torture kink, cheating/infidelity, high school/university au, yentas/matchmaking/meddling friends or family in general, unrequested polyamory, epistolary, crossdressing, noncon (wherein one half completely hates the sex; if they come to like it, a convenient mind break occurs, or anything similar — we're good!), genderswap/always-a-[opposite gender].

⟡ No preference between past and present tense, although I only prefer 3^rd-Person Narration. 2^nd and 1^st are hard nopes for me.

⟡ Really not a fan of background ships, ensemble pieces, or found family. For things like casefic, I prefer when the case or mystery is the B-plot and the romance is in the forefront/driving the plot progression.

⟡ Not a fan of crossovers unless requested, but fusions are my lifeblood.