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we heard crimes often and softly ([personal profile] badritual) wrote2021-01-02 08:06 am
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dear chocolatier

All prompts are in my sign-up but I will reproduce them here if needed!

What I Love:

I'm really, really into gothic romance/gothic horror/horror of any stripe. I also love ambiguous/happy for now/sad endings. I love things that are not necessarily tied up with a neat pretty bow. That's not to say I don't enjoy a happy ending, though! This is mostly just to reassure you, the author, that if a happy ending doesn't seem to fit the story, or isn't coming, don't stress about it. I love endings that fit the story being told, regardless of whether or not they're happy.

My main DNWs are listed below:

DNWs:
• domestic violence/abuse
• violence against animals/animal death
• A/B/O, BDSM, and kneeling 'verses (I don't mind if you include these kinks in a fic, but I'm not interested in universes structured around them if that makes sense)
• mpreg
• watersports/scat
• focus on background/past relationships (references are fine)
• mundane AUs (i.e. college/bakery/flower shop/etc.)
• horror that centers on mental institutions/hospitals/mental illness/disability/etc.
• vampire and werewolf AUs in non-supernatural fandoms (perfectly fine with vampires and werewolves in supernatural settings)
• direct mention/reference/inclusion as a plot device of COVID or the 2020 election
• I strongly prefer Star Wars and SPN settings to be canonverse/canon-adjacent (i.e. I love AUs that are canon tweaks or what-ifs; AUs that change fundamental aspects of the universe/characters/setting/etc. not so much)

Some Stuff I Like:
• gothic/gothic romance/horror/ghost stories!!!
• space gothic (think Event Horizon and the Alien series)
• cosmic horror
• body horror
• monsters!!! sentient monsters!!! monsters that just wanna eat things!!! i like monsters!!!
• bodyswap
• time travel/time loops/time fuckery
• pining
• mind-games/manipulation
• ghosts/hauntings/etc.
• miscommunication (within reason)
• poly/poly-v relationships
• enemies to lovers
• friends to lovers to enemies to lovers
• friends to enemies to lovers
• unhealthy/codependent relationships
• obsession/obsessive relationships
• relationships with a power imbalance (i.e. mentor/pupil, priest/parishioner, older partner/younger partner, queen/subject, etc.)
• power imbalances/power dynamics/power dynamics inverted (i.e. the student in the professor/student relationship has all the power, parishioner has power over the priest, subject controls the queen, etc)
• characters facing/dealing with mortality (of their lives, their livelihoods, careers, etc.)
• platonic soulmates
• amnesiafic
• epistolary/social media pastiche
• future fic
• casefic
• ensemble fic
• complicated relationships
• professional/career-related jealousy
• Ritual sex/resurrection rituals
• small town AUs (small town in the suburban gothic sense rather than cute, quaint villages and whatnot)

I will be perfectly happy with any combination of Stuff I Like, if none of the ideas I've offered in my sign-up grabbed your attention. If you have any further questions, please reach out to me through the mods and I'll try to get back to you ASAP!